{"id":18333,"date":"2013-04-09T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2013-04-09T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:57:03","slug":"an-interesting-story-about-margaret-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18333","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Story About Margaret Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Tablet Magazine<\/a> posted an article posted an article about an event in Margaret Thatcher’s<\/a> childhood that made a lasting impression on her.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Johnson (Charles Johnson) starts with what Thatcher often said was her greatest accomplishment, which was not her work in helping to topple the Soviet Union<\/a> or being the first British woman to hold the post of prime minister, but rather, was her work as a child to save a Jewish<\/a> teenager in Austria<\/a> from the grasp of Hitler<\/a>\u2019s terror.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story begins in 1938 when Edith Muhlbauer, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a letter to Muriel Roberts, Edith\u2019s pen pal and the future prime minister\u2019s [Margaret Thatcher] older sister. The letter expressed fear that as Hitler began rounding up Jews in Austria<\/a> that her family would be included in those round-ups. The Roberts family did not have the means to take Edith in, and Margaret, then 12, and Muriel, 17, set about raising funds and persuading the local Rotary club<\/a> to help.\u00a0Edith stayed with a number of Rotary families for about two years until she was able to go to South America<\/a> to join relatives.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Had the Roberts family not intervened, Edith recalled years later, \u201cI would have stayed in Vienna and they would have killed me.\u201d Thatcher never forgot the lesson: \u201cNever hesitate to do whatever you can, for you may save a life,\u201d she told audiences in 1995 after Edith had been located, alive and well, in Brazil<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Thatcher showed courage and determination even as a young adult. It is no wonder that she grew up to be the “Iron Lady.”<\/p>\n

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