To: Cicero
No, Cromwell was not a good guy. But it was a great line.Cromwell was not a good guy but he did one great thing. He reversed the policy of forbidding Jews to live in England. This act led to England, and ultimately America, becoming a sanctuary for Jews who otherwise might have perished, first in the pogroms and later in the Holocaust. An underappreciated act of extraordinary importance.
27 posted on
09/24/2004 1:13:03 PM PDT by
jalisco555
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
To: jalisco555
Cromwell was not a good guy but he did one great thing. He reversed the policy of forbidding Jews to live in England. This act led to England, and ultimately America, becoming a sanctuary for Jews who otherwise might have perished, first in the pogroms and later in the Holocaust. An under appreciated act of extraordinary importance. Thank you for this post...I never knew this, or had forgotten it like about a thousand other things, lol, and reading your post was so enlightening. Cromwell certainly did perform an immense 'act of extraordinary importance'.
46 posted on
09/24/2004 7:55:50 PM PDT by
Republic
(Will michael shiavo and his concubine and children now preside over the murder of Terri?)
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