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单词 Schleswig-Holstein Question
释义

Schleswig-Holstein Question

See also: Schleswig-Holstein question

English

Proper noun

the Schleswig-Holstein Question

  1. (historical) The question of which state(s) possessed 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, Eastern Question, German Question, Irish Question, Jewish Question, Karelian Question, Polish Question, Roman Question, Schleswig-Holstein Question

References

  1. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria (1921)
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