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"Pitt now promoted a solution that was typical of him: the man who had found an elegant answer to problems such as rising national debt and over-complex taxes could see the solution to the whole European crisis. He sought nothing less than a huge collective agreement on European peace on the basis of the prewar frontiers -- the status quo ante bellum. British mediation brought agreement between the Austrians and the Prussians at Reichenbach in July 1790 on exactly this basis."
(even if it is an entirely unrelated town in Poland. :-P )
(even if it is an entirely unrelated town in Poland. :-P )
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