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- 2 - 38 the types of society which could be seen in the sparse regular meetings around him.According to this selection, there was little debate about politics, and if so, there were no more attentive and grateful listeners than bees.It could be observed that, if he intervened in such a debate, it only did so, that it did not stop if it seemed interesting to him, but not to formulate or defend his own view of the subject under discussion.If he asserted his view, then at most in the form of an almost stenographic shortness or an aphorism that never lacked stimulus or a sharply cisculated line. I remember that someone who didn't know him so well was the impression that was created by the hinted character trajectory of Bienert, with the words:Political Sphinx! Such a mistake! Bienert was never a sphinx and the pose of a spinx was so foreign to him as any pose was foreign to it at all.He had this dubious ambition and did not.He is by no means a "political sphincter", but a white man, educated if they so wish in the old wisdom, which says that "the eden silver and silence is gold".Beenert is, as I said, a politician; but not by any means out of the wheezing of those who not only do not bribe the opportunity with their eloquence, and with their various-coloured rockets of their "eistes to be enchanted".He is a politician of the kind who recognizes to him the face of the doctrine: Miss twice and cut once. A politician who tirelessly modeled his spirit according to the principle: to be prepared, that's all! And therefore not only the office of the police president, but also the other offices which he was called to lead, benert actually prepared to give them everything they expected of the personality of the new boss. Which of the former political parties was closer or even closest to it, I suppose, it does not give reliable news.But in none of the political parties there was doubt that the cause of national interest always had a faithful guardian.His patriotism was always part of his political faith, which he did not hide and which not only doubled his proverbial energy, but could also solve his censorship.However, this was not the known one, and more was considered a voice, purposeful work for the real national interests.And it was a nationalism of the