Mar 22, 2022

Her words seem appropriate for today.

There will never be a new World Order. There is no substitute for leadership, the Anglo-American leadership, which has saved the World for liberty this century and in which Jewish men and women, “staunch to the end, against odds uncounted” have played such an enormous role.

In 1941 when we stood alone Winston Churchill said ‘Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind’. The words were for us all, but they seem especially right for your people who had suffered from such savagery.

HOPES FOR THE FUTURE.

May we bring to future generations the same faith and courage as those we remember today gave so selflessly to us. The words ‘We will remember them’ come from Laurence Binyon ‘s poem ‘For the Fallen’—its other wonderful verses are seldom heard—

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

To the innermost heart of their own land, they are known

As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,

Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

So tonight when we look up in perfect silence at the stars we will remember them with pride in our hearts.

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1994 Nov 20 Su, Margaret Thatcher.
Speech to Anglo-Jewish Ex-servicemen (AJEX).