Schleswig-Holstein Question
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English
Proper noun
the Schleswig-Holstein Question
- (historical) The question of which state(s) possessed, or should possess, control over (which parts of) Schleswig-Holstein.
Usage notes
- Lytton Strachey, calling "the dreadful Schleswig-Holstein question the most complex in the whole diplomatic history of Europe", wrote that the British statesman Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston) had once remarked that "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—the Prince Consort, who is dead—a German professor, who has gone mad—and I, who have forgotten all about it."[1]
See also
- (questions of history) national question; Adriatic Question, Armenian Question, Black Question, Eastern Question, German Question, Irish question, Jewish Question, Karelian Question, Polish Question, Roman Question, Schleswig-Holstein Question
References
- ^ Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria (1921)