von bulow humiliates isvolsky

a bit of background: the russian foreign minister Baron Isvolsky had given clandestine assurances to the the austrian foreign minister - Count Areunthal - that russia would not oppose the Austrian annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovinia in 1908, on the condition that Austria support a russian plan to force turkey to open the dardenelles. This would only happen if enough international pressure was brought to bear on turkey thru a conference of all the european powers. The major powers, however would only agree to meet if there were a crisis to resolve. Isvolsky thought the Austrian annexation would be just the crisis needed to bring this about, but because he had already given russia's tacit consent the austrians were able to present it to the other powers as a fait accompli; therefore no crisis.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Fall of Eagles
• Isvolsky
• von Bulow

[andmaketherain]

I love it when the British play Germans and Russians!

[hill9868]

Von Bulow is played by Australian actor Ed Devereux who was a regular on the long-running 1970s TV show 'Skippy: the bush kangaroo' !!

[ladynw777]

thanks for making me aware granada tv made this as i didnt know about it