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The case which Palmerston had chosen for the
establishment of this principle was painfully, even
absurdly remote from any national British interest,
Don Pacifico, a Portuguese Jew, resident in Athens,
who in some obscure way had acquired British citi-
zenship, had a fantastic claim for financial compensa-
tion against the Greek Government. He refused
to sue in the Greek courts, called in British diplo-
matic aid, and so far succeeded, that a British fleet
was sent to the Piraeus with a peremptory demand
for a settlement. Palmerston's doctrine, looked at
askance in his own day, has become the unchallenged
dogma not only of our own, but of every other Great
Power. In the heroic age Helen's was the face that
launched a thousand ships. In our golden age the
face wears more often the shrew^d features of some
Hebrew financier. To defend the interests of Lord
Rothschild and his fellow bondholders, Egypt was
first occupied, and then practically annexed by
Great Britain. To avenge the murder of a mis-
sionary b}' a Chinese mob, the Germans annexed the
town of Kiao-chau, and a district stretching one
hundred miles inland — the town, it may be remarked,
was noted net merely for its dislike of German mis-
sionaries, but also for the fact that it is a very valu-
able port. To protect investors who had speculated
in its debt, a foreign financial control was imposed
upon Greece. The claims of various financial
adventurers, who had grievances against President
Castro's Goverimient, induced Britain and Germany
to conduct a naval expedition against Venezuela.

So I went contemporary and then looked for a reputable liberal perspective and all I got was a well constructed thesis wherein the assertion is made that the Geo-political calamities of the last century were caused by the financial machinations of international jewry.

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