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Conclusion: The East India Company was the first modern narco organization, Lord Palmerston is personally responsible for centuries of drug related violence.

Like Lord Palmerston said, countries don’t have friends v or enemies, only interests.

The only thing I can say here is that people like Lord Palmerston were aware of what they were doing.

Prime Minister Palmerston & Foreign Secretary Russell spent a lot of time maneuvering and deflecting calls for Britain to get involved or pick a side.

Cotton cotton cotton That Lord Palmerston and his Zoo!

Other things Palmerston cared about was that no country would end up powerful enough to dominate the entire world-- that's another thing he saw as part of England's interest.

Not true, I've been in Palmerston North scince getting my degree.

This is the 21th century equivalent of Palmerston paying off The London Times so that no one thinks too hard about why England would ever want to fight for the Confederacy.

They look at regional towns like Palmerston North or New Plymouth with their ample parking, wide roads, and quiet suburban neighbourhoods, and aspire for Wellington to be like that (while retaining the amenities of city life).

This was a protest in support of a restaurateur, Henry Harrod of Palmerston North, who was being forced to change the name of his restaurant following threatening lawsuits from Mohammed Al Fayed, the owner of Harrod's department store in London.

The book I recommended in original comment (A World on Fire) will give you a good inside-look at the British political thought & decision making during that time, including Parliamentary debates & communiques between Palmerston and his ministers.

The realpolitic of international relations very often follows the words of the British prime minister, Lord Palmerston: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies.

Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” -- Lord Palmerston (and repeated by Henry Kissinger) It's a dangerous world out there, and best not to be weak.

This was a radical and fantastic idea of Palmerston's, which led to vigorous debate.

But the interest in Palmerston's case going against Portugal and hunting the slave ships with the intent of ending the slave trade.

But Palmerston's quote isn't about convenience.