disinclined and set down in writing the reasons he would be unsuitable: 1. Age, poor memory, illness73 2. Poor public speaker 3. Unfamiliar with Prussian laws and politics 4. Not a soldier 5. Insufficient means. I could probably manage without the Governor General’s salary, but not in Berlin. I shall be ruined. 6. My Russian connections 7. I have been in public life for thirty years, am seventy-five years old and do not wish to start something which I know will be too much for me. These objections were overruled. Prince Hohenlohe was installed in office and served as Imperial Chancellor
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