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COUNT HARRY KARL KURT EDUARD VON ARNI...

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 630 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT HARRY KARL KURT EDUARD VON See also:ARNIM (1824-1881)  , See also:German diplomatist, was a member of one of the most numerous and most widely spread families of the Prussian See also:nobility . He was See also:born in See also:Pomerania on the 3rd of See also:October 1824, and brought up by his See also:uncle Heinrich von See also:Arnim, who was Prussian See also:ambassador at See also:Paris and See also:foreign See also:minister from See also:March to See also:June 1848, while See also:Count Arnim-Boytzenburg, whose daughter Harry von Arnim afterwards married, was minister-See also:president . It is noticeable that the uncle was brought before a See also:court of See also:justice and fined for See also:publishing a pamphlet directed against the See also:ministry of See also:Manteuffel . After holding other posts in the See also:diplomatic service Arnim was in 1864 appointed Prussian See also:envoy (and in 1867 envoy of the See also:North German See also:Confederation)at the papal court . In 1869 he proposed that the governments should appoint representatives to be See also:present at the Vatican See also:council, a See also:suggestion which was rejected by See also:Bismarck, and foretold that the promulgation of papal See also:infallibility would bring serious See also:political difficulties . After the recall of the See also:French troops from See also:Rome he attempted unsuccessfully to mediate between the See also:pope and the See also:Italian See also:government . He was appointed in 1871 German See also:commissioner to arrange the final treaty with See also:France, a task which he carried out with such success that in 1871 he was appointed German envoy at Paris, and in 1872 received his definite See also:appointment as ambassador, a See also:post of the greatest difficulty and responsibility . See also:Differences soon arose between him and Bismarck; he wished to support the monarchical party which was trying to overthrow See also:Thiers, while Bismarck ordered him to stand aloof from all French parties; he did not give that implicit obedience to his instructions which Bismarck required . Bismarck, how-ever, was unable to recall him because of the See also:great See also:influence which he enjoyed at court and the confidence which the See also:emperor placed in him . He was looked upon by the Conservative party, who were trying to overthrow Bismarck, as his successor, and it is said that he was closely connected with the court intrigues against the See also:chancellor . In the beginning of 1874 he was recalled and appointed to the See also:embassy at See also:Constantinople, but this appointment was immediately revoked . A See also:Vienna newspaper published some See also:correspondence on the Vatican council, including confidential despatches of Arnim's, with the See also:object of showing that he had shown greater foresight than Bismarck .

It was then found that a considerable number of papers were missing from the Paris embassy, and on the 4th of October Arnim was arrested on the See also:

charge of embezzling See also:state papers . This recourse to the criminal See also:law against a See also:man of his See also:rank, who had held one of the most important diplomatic posts, caused great astonishment . His See also:defence was that the papers were not See also:official, and he was acquitted on the charge of See also:embezzlement, but convicted of undue delay in restoring official papers and condemned to three months' imprisonment . On See also:appeal the See also:sentence was increased to nine months . Arnim avoided imprisonment by leaving the See also:country, and in 1875 published anonymously at See also:Zurich a pamphlet entitled " See also:Pro nihilo," in which he attempted to show that the attack on him was caused by Bismarck's See also:personal See also:jealousy . For this he was accused of See also:treason, insult to the emperor, and libelling Bismarck, and in his See also:absence condemned - to five years' penal See also:servitude . From his See also:exile in See also:Austria he published two more See also:pamphlets on the ecclesiastical policy of See also:Prussia, " Der Nunzius kommt!" (Vienna, 1878), and " Quid faciamus nos?" (ib . 1879) . He made repeated attempts, which were supported by his See also:family, to be allowed to return to See also:Germany in See also:order to take his trial afresh on the charge of treason; his See also:request had just been granted when he died on the 19th of May 1881 . In 1876 Bismarck carried an See also:amendment to the criminal See also:code making it an offence punishable with imprisonment or a See also:fine up to £250 for an official of the foreign See also:office to communicate to others official documents, or for an envoy to See also:act contrary to his instructions . These clauses are commonly spoken of in Germany as the "Arnim paragraphs." (J . W .

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