1842 India, Muslims, and Oil
“Abraham Benisch in a memorandum to (British) Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Canning- Scheme
If it be evident that England cannot attain her views by the propagation of Protestantism, she must direct her attention to another persuasion legally on a par with the resident Catholics and which evinces no sympathy with either of the Catholic Powers.- This persuasion is the Jewish one.- Scattered over the surface of the whole globe, the Jews still form in their religious sentiments an irrefragable unity, and a benefit conferred on any of them, fills the hearts of even their ocean-separated Brethren, with purely grateful feelings-
Source: 39 pp. 42-46