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“...negotiating with the treasury commissioner Schwinner in regard to the amounts to be paid to Austria...…”

“An uneasy Mühlinen reported back to Vienna: I do not know what passed between them, but I do know that the evening before at Ferrières, the old baron was very well disposed and drank to the success of all our wishes ... while after the visi…”

“Their reservations were only confirmed by the efforts of the Austrian government to secure rival offers from the Credit Foncier and other Paris houses in November 1867.…”

“At the same time, the Austrian government found itself once again having to turn to the Rothschilds to satisfy its own burgeoning financial needs.…”

“...the British government, in an attempt to exert pressure on Vienna to end its occupation of Naples, raised the question of outstanding loans... which had been given to Austria...…”

“The exchange rate was also a stumbling block in the negotiations with Austria.…”

“Was it any wonder the Austrian government feared that the Rothschilds might “go bankrupt?”…”

“Indeed, Salomon had to intervene to prevent a slump in the price of “metalliques” (Austrian silver-denominated bonds).…”

“of 4.65 million gulden which Metternich demanded in August 1821 as payment for the actual invasion, 4 million had been received by the following February, and to this were added occupation costs of 9 million ducats per annum.…”

“When the Austrian government asked Salomon to help “end the Italian difficulties” by sending “a member of his House in order to start negotiations in this sense in the name of the Austrian Government,” the younger Rothschilds were reluctant…”

“When the Austrian government approached Anselm with a 60 million gulden loan proposal in March, he was cautious, dismissing it as “a great nonsense” and “a stupid project.”…”

“In spite of his greatness in other directions, a finance minister such as this would naturally seem an easy mark for clever bankers and financiers who were out to get business.…”

“...Baron von Hiigel, the Austrian plenipotentiary at Frankfort.…”

“...Herr von Neumann, Austrian counselor of embassy in London...…”

“At last the brothers Rothschild succeeded in winning over Barbier, Austria’s financial representative in Paris...…”

“Nevertheless, the Austrian government continued to give considerable orders to the four Austrian firms...…”

“...the Austrian ambassador in London, Prince Esterhazy, had written to Metternich in support of Nathan’s nomination...…”

“...this firm already appeared to have rendered important services to the Austrian treasury...…”

“successful pressure was brought to bear by the Austrian government with the result that he was reappointed finance minister at Naples in the spring of 1822.…”

“As a reward for his change of allegiance and various political services, he was granted an annuity of fifty thousand francs by the Austrian government...…”

“Rothschild, however, firmly adhered to the position that the Austrian government must give her full expressed consent to the arrangement, if he entered into it.…”