My Fair Frauds

The New York Herald - Friday, November 9, 1883

THE NEW YORK HERALD

TENSIONS ESCALATE IN GERMANIC KINGDOM OF WüRTTEMBERG FOLLOWING RATIFICATION OF “TRIPLE ALLIANCE”

Calvin Archer, New York Office

The historic defensive “Triple Alliance” treaty between the German Empire, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, when initially proposed

last year, was met with widespread resistance in the Kingdom of Württemberg, a resource-rich Germanic nation that has suffered

both politically and economically since Reich unification. Opponents decried the treaty as overreaching and particularly unfair

to Württemberg, and contended that ratification would surely sound the death knell for the southern state’s sovereignty.

King Charles I’s capitulation to the empire’s pressures to ratify subsequently spurred a growing nationalist movement within

Württemberg’s borders, with key nobility rumored to be setting the stage for a resistance . . .