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Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent (Disraeli foreign policy)
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Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent (Disraeli foreign policy)
Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent -- Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, depicted as the Sphinx, with people below begging him to speak. A satirical reference to his purchase of Suez Canal Shares, and also to his silence about government policy on the Eastern Question, since Serbia and Montenegro had declared war against Turkey. Date: 1876
Media ID 23361658
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1876 Begging Benjamin Canal Conservative Disraeli Minister Prime Shares Silent Sphinx Suez Tory
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