Chapter 837: The European Anti-Semitic Movement
Chapter 820 – European Anti-Semitic Movement
After half a dozen hours of work, seeing that the foreign minister still did not speak, Napoleon IV sighed helplessly.
France is isolated by the European countries is not a day or two, can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The Bonaparte Dynasty was even under siege since its establishment.
In order to change the political and diplomatic isolation, successive French governments have made efforts, but unfortunately with little success.
As if under a curse, every time the French government improves relations with European countries, it doesn’t take long for a major incident to break out again, re-stretching the hate value.
Far from it, Napoleon III era and European countries to ease relations, and then annexed the Italian region, all the previous diplomatic efforts once lost.
Napoleon IV succeeded to the throne and made the same efforts, again without exception. Only this time it wasn’t them screwing up, it was someone screwing them up.
It all ended the same way, and diplomatic relations, which had been improving with difficulty, immediately went back down to freezing point.
Even the Spanish government, which had been raised by the French, was lukewarm to them and could not be considered an ally.
Against this background, it was undoubtedly a fool’s errand for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to persuade European countries to agree to the French government’s issuance of bonds in various countries.
After hesitating again and again, Napoleon IV slowly said, “The relief program for refugees is temporarily canceled, restart negotiations with the consortium.”
Facts once again proved that it was impossible to do without money. The big farm program had only just begun, not even the seeds had been sown, and now France was still a food importer.
Taking the government’s precious foreign exchange and buying food from abroad to relieve the colonial natives. For the colonists, this is very extravagant behavior.
When the government had money, Napoleon IV did not mind being kind and saving these “laborers”. Now that there was no money, there was no need to think about it.
Prime Minister Terence Burgin reminded: “Your Majesty, now negotiating with the consortium, they will certainly ask for a lot of money, the price to pay ……”
Napoleon IV interrupted, “Do we have a choice? Domestic cotton stocks have been depleted, most cotton textile companies are laying off workers and cutting production, and unemployment is growing dramatically.
If we don’t resume cotton production in Egypt as soon as possible, all domestic textile enterprises will die out. By then, what about the millions of textile workers?”
Knowing it was hemlock, Napoleon IV had no choice. The market needed confidence, and if the capitalists were not allowed to see hope, a wave of bankruptcies and unemployment would soon follow.
In order to avoid another revolution, Napoleon IV could only accept the danger of compromising with the consortium.
Roy Vernon, the Minister of Finance, said with some trepidation, “Or shall we be anti-Semitic?”
The Jews were a major debtor to the French government, holding at least one-third of the French government’s debt.
If we start an anti-Semitic movement, we won’t have to pay these debts. And then copy the family, confiscate the assets of the Jews, the current difficulties will be over.
After a moment’s effort of hesitation, Napoleon IV nodded: “First send someone to talk to the Jewish consortium, and if they are willing to lend money to the government, then let them off the hook.”
Money or life, this is a difficult choice. The tragedy was that the Jews who made the choice question had no idea of the consequences of refusing.
Even if someone wants it, it’s hard to make a cut in the face of profit. It can be said that from the time Napoleon IV made this decision, a new round of anti-Semitic movement in France had already begun.
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Vienna Palace, put down the newspaper in his hands, Franz found something wrong, in recent times, Europe exposed the black history of the Jews news suddenly more.
With years of political experience, Franz can be sure that this is a premeditated targeting action.
Otherwise, these days black-hearted capitalists are everywhere, why do the newspapers expose exactly all Jewish capitalists?
Of course, the newspapers must be all right. The news published in it was all illustrated, and everything that happened could be verified, and it did its job as a newsman.
Even if one knows that there are people behind the scenes, there’s nothing one can do about it, what has to be reported still has to be reported, who let the Jewish capital be unclean itself.
Although the Vienna government has a relatively strict control of the news, but the core is factual, the fight is to rumor mongering, bring the rhythm. This kind of solid news is not within the scope of control.
Not to mention exposing the black history of the Jewish capitalists, even if it is a powerful man in the country, as long as there is evidence of his crime, the newspaper can still expose it.
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On Christmas Eve Eve, the French economist Julien Faubel spoke on the radio, entitled “Vigilance Against the Man Behind the Scenes in the Economic Crisis,” targeting the Jewish consortium.
Immediately following this, a number of French experts and scholars made public statements placing the blame for the deterioration of the domestic economy on the Jewish consortium.
With the intentional indulgence of the French government, there was an upsurge of violence against Jews.
Sensing the approaching danger, the experienced Jewish capitalists immediately resorted to the invincible “franc” public relations.
However, by this time it was already too late. From the time the negotiations broke down, the French government had already made up its mind.
On January 4, 1886, the Paris government investigated a number of banks in the country on the grounds of “suspected collusion with hostile forces outside the country in shorting the franc and engaging in financial crimes,” bringing the anti-Semitic campaign to a climax.
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As time went on, the anti-Semitic movement in Europe became more and more powerful, and the Jews were once again in a difficult position of being hunted down by everyone.
On January 11, 1886, the mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt, Eduard York, published an article in the Austrian daily newspaper, attacking Jewish capital manipulation of stock prices, fabricating “good and bad news” in order to make huge profits.
Prior to this, the Frankfurt Securities Commission had already issued investigation orders to a number of Jewish capital-controlled securities companies and foundations.
The news was confirmed and the anti-Semitic movement spread to Austria. Countless leeks hate the Jews who manipulate stock prices with a passion.
In this age of poor communication, the anti-Semitic movement went from warm-up to high in just over a month, proving that the Jews are a qualified backstabber.
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At a government meeting, Franz asked expressionlessly, “What do you think of the growing civil anti-Semitic movement?”
Not only is the civil anti-Semitic movement on the rise, even the anti-Semitic voices in the government have taken over the mainstream, only restricted by the rules, everyone is not on the side of the public stance.
Just because you can’t take a stand doesn’t mean there’s no way to be anti-Semitic. It’s still possible to publish some of the black history of Jewish capital, and Edward York is just one of them.
In recent times a number of agencies such as the Commerce and Industry, Quality Assurance, Labor Inspection Board, Tax Board, Securities and Exchange Commission …… and many others have been taking action.
All of them are within the rules to combat illegal and criminal behavior, and each action has tangible evidence that no one can say anything.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the situation might get out of hand, Franz wouldn’t even bother to ask. After all, the fight against crime is the function of government departments.
As long as the punishment was carried out in accordance with Austrian law and there was no abuse of power, then there was no problem.
Prime Minister Karl: “Your Majesty, since the French started the anti-Semitic movement, the anti-Semitic wave on the European continent has risen high.
The situation in the country is fairly stable, it hasn’t spread to ordinary Jews, and most of those targeted are Jewish capitalists.
The Government has tightened security controls and prohibited acts of violence such as vandalism and looting.
At the same time, the government encourages the public to expose all criminal violations, and we will not tolerate these criminals.”
Franz rubbed his forehead, he now counted on understanding. The frequent bad luck of the Jewish capitalists in recent times had its roots here.
Completely legal capitalists were a rarity these days, and as long as one carefully investigated, one could always find the problem.
Because the involvement is too wide, Franz can’t kill everyone with one stick, can only pick a few serious problems out to make an example.
Jewish capitalists themselves have problems, in the whole of Europe at the moment of anti-Semitism, these problems were exposed, undoubtedly hit on the muzzle.
Look at the Jewish capitalists unhappy prime minister Karl, this time clearly to public affairs, in full accordance with the Austrian laws and regulations for punishment, and may even be from the heavy punishment.
Knowing this, Franz had no intention of calling it quits. The dignity of the law must be upheld, and it was entirely reasonable and legal for the government to do so.
“It’s good that you all have it in your hearts. The fight against lawlessness and crime must be strict, but it is strictly forbidden to expand the situation.
For the sake of economic stability in the country, while the government enforces the law, it must also do a good job in the aftermath, especially in stabilizing employment.
When it comes to people-intensive industries such as manufacturing factories, you can let the state-owned enterprises take over the running of the business first, and then conduct public auctions in accordance with laws and regulations when the dust settles.”
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(End of chapter)