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The Rothschild Dynasty 175<br />

The measure was now being referred to in <strong>the</strong> Times as<br />

<strong>the</strong> "annual pastime" of Parliament. Having been struck down in<br />

1849, 1851, 1853, 1856 and 1857, Disraeli in 1858 tried a new<br />

tack by changing <strong>the</strong> wording of <strong>the</strong> Oath, but <strong>the</strong> Lords again<br />

rejected it.<br />

Disraeli hit back by appointing a committee to look into a<br />

basis of <strong>the</strong> restoration of <strong>the</strong> new Oath and appointed Lionel de<br />

Rothschild on <strong>the</strong> committee. Finally, amid ugly scenes and<br />

rearguard opposition from Lord Derby, much grumbling with a<br />

razor-thin majority voting for it, a compromise was reached:<br />

Each House would formulate its own Oath. At <strong>the</strong> sumptuous<br />

home of Lionel de Rothschild <strong>the</strong>re was great rejoicing that <strong>the</strong><br />

"eleven years of shouting and screaming in every corner of <strong>the</strong><br />

House" was over.<br />

On July 26, 1858, Lionel de Rothschild was sworn in on<br />

<strong>the</strong> new, non-Christian Oath, shaking hands with Disraeli as he<br />

went up to do so in a public display of <strong>the</strong> gratitude he owed his<br />

protege whom he had wisely and with great foresight, converted<br />

to Christianity at a tender age possibly in anticipation of his need<br />

for <strong>the</strong> very service he had now delivered.

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