BRITISH LIBERALISM 1853

"The cause of British-Austrian hostility were those old issues that arose after 1848 and were recently exacerbated---first of all, the Hungarian and Italian political refugees in Britain....the Austrians charged that Britain had knowingly granted asylum to assassins and sheltered the Central Committee at London that was behind all the conspiracies...Clarendon could not simply brush the accusations aside...Clarendon knew that Britain rejected Austria's demands not because remedial action was legally or constitutionally impossible, but because it would be politically unpopular."

They came to London not just from Hungary and Italy...

Switzerland, of course, was an even hotter hot bed of radicalism and revolution.

Marx, of course, ended up in London, Engels' invited guest and idol.