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Rrassment of Austria as the occasion for taking a stronger position in
Germany; if it were necessary he was prepared to go as far as an
alliance with France. He was influenced not so much by sympathy with
Piedmont, for, as we have seen, he held that those who were responsible
for foreign policy should never give way to sympathy, but by the simple
calculation that Austria was the common enemy of Prussia and Piedmont,
and where there were common interests an alliance might be formed. The
Government were, however, not prepared to adopt this policy. It might
have been supposed that a Liberal Ministry would have shewn more sympat