The intervention of the Rothschilds in the…
April 1840 CE
The head of the Rothschild family bank in Vienna, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, plays the key role in raising financing for the Austrian Empire, and he has a very close relationship with the Austrian chancellor Klkemens von Metternich.
Metternich dispatches instruction regarding both the Damascus and Rhodes affairs on April 10 to Bartholomäus von Stürmer, ambassador in Constantinople, and Anton von Laurin, consul in Alexandria.
In his dispatch, Metternich writes: "The accusation that Christians are deliberately murdered for some blood-thirsty Passover festival is by its nature absurd…"