Lord Palmerston, in his dispatch of May…

May 1840 CE

Lord Palmerston, in his dispatch of May 5, tells Lord Ponsonby, the British ambassador in Constantinople, to communicate the material on the Rhodes affair to the Ottoman government "officially and in writing" and to "request… an immediate and strict inquiry to be made… especially into the allegation that these atrocities were committed at the instigation of the Christians and the European consuls."

A consensus forms within the European diplomatic community in Constantinople that the persecution of the accused Jews has to be stopped.

This opinion is held not only by Lord Ponsonby, but also by von Stürmer, whose correspondence reveals that he is not at all convinced of the innocence of the Jews; by the French ambassador Edouard Pontois, whose government stands by the French consuls who support blood libels in Rhodes and Damascus; and by the Prussian ambassador Hans von Königsmark.

Consequently, the way is open for Lord Ponsonby, by far the most powerful diplomat in Constantinople, to intervene unopposed on behalf the Jews of Rhodes.

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Abdulmejid I View → Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston View → John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby View → Klemens von Metternich View → Moses Montefiore View → Salomon Mayer von Rothschild View →

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Jews View → Islam View → Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Ottoman Empire View → Greeks (Modern) View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Rothschild family View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Austrian Empire View → France, constitutional monarchy of View →

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