“The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain; I resolved on repairing to Spain from Russia. I trav¬ eled without intermission. I had an audience im¬ mediately on my arrival with the Spanish Minister, Senor Mendizabel; I beheld one like myself, the son of a Nuevo Christiano, a Jew of Aragon.
“In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French Council; I beheld the son of a French Jew, a hero, an imperial marshal * * * ”
If Sidonia were traveling today he would find whole groups of Jews, where, in his day, he found one, and he would find them in exalted places. Suppose Dis¬ raeli were alive today and should revise “Coningsby,” including the United States in the tour of this moneymaster of the world! What a host of Jewish names he could gather from official circles in Washington and New York—such a host, indeed, as makes the occa¬ sional Gentile’ look like a foreigner who had been graciously permitted to come in by the Jews!
“The consequence of our consultations was, that some northern power should be applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity. We fixed on Prussia; and the President of the Council made an application to the Prussian Minister, who attended a few days after our conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet, and I beheld a Prussian Jew.”
Sidonia’s comment upon all this is offered as an address to every reader of this article: