The intervention of the Rothschilds in the…

April 1840 CE

The intervention of the Rothschilds in the blood libel accusations bears the quickest fruit in Austria.

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…"

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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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Tanzimat View → Damascus affair View → Rhodes blood libel View →

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Mayhem View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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