TY - JOUR
AU1 - Nelles, H. V.
AB -  S H O RT E R N OT I C E S advancing towards the premiership almost as confidently as it used to be thought that Bismarck planned the unification of Germany. Brown's Palmerston is even more masterful than Donald Southgate's (The Most English Minister, Section D, `Towards Supremacy, February 1852­January 1855'). Without doubting Palmerston's ambition, other writers ­ Bell, Ridley, Chamberlain, Conacher ­ have all been more aware of weaknesses in his position. The prime minister in willing was not omniscient. Could even he have felt certain that his maniac resistance to parliamentary Reform would not backfire, that the commendation of the Protectionist Morning Post and the Press would not alienate free trade voters, that his religious and Protestant credentials (which Brown makes much of ) would weather his private life, and that his treachery (for it was little less) in feeding newspapers with the confidential information they needed to revile the administrations to which he belonged, would not be exposed, or that there would be no revulsion if it was? Above all, of course, Palmerston was lucky in his rival. Lord John was not in the habit of bringing calculation to bear upon his personal relationships. 
TI - Canada, 1849
JF - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/118.478.1072
DA - 2003-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/canada-1849-L84fwdQObM
SP - 1072
EP - 1073
VL - 118
IS - 478
DP - DeepDyve
ER -