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Three days before, a quiet group of men had quietly laid a wreath at Whitehall's Cenotaph, Britain's monument to valorous Britons. It was inscribed:' "In memory of Sergeant Martin and Sergeant Paice, who died doing their duty in Palestine, July 30, 1947. From their Jewish ex-service comrades of the British forces." And it was signed with many names. Among them: Major Sir Jack Benn Brunei Cohen, who lost both legs in World War I; Wing Commander Lionel Cohen, who won the D.F.C. at the age of 68 in 1944, after 45 R.A.F. operational flights in World War II; Colonel Louis Gluckstein; Lieut. Leonard Veyzor, V.C.; Lieut. Colonel J. H. Levey; Major Edmund de Rothschild.
* But not always. In 1290 Edward I, in another economic crisis, expelled England's Jews. In 1644, Roger Williams, himself a conscientious refugee, wrote in favor of their official return. Over the years, beginning about 1650, Jews began re-establishing themselves in Britain. By 1871 Britain's Jews, after many gains, had received complete civil equality.