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The German National Movement's Backlash
Prussia seems to be in a position to defend the interests of the German nation better than the Frankfurt parliament is. The Frankfurt parliament has no army, but it has a tiny sort of shrunken bureaucracy. It has no means of projecting power or of making people do what it wants them to. So under the pressure of all that sort of powerlessness, it starts to fray and it starts to wane as a presence in people's minds. Britain does look in that regard like a bit of an exception.