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August 26, 2019
London, 1835: Ben Disraeli Disses Daniel O'Connell.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Parliament, 1835.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at August 26, 2019 12:54 AM