Margaret Thatcher’s most meaningful accomplishment

Without a doubt, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was once the most powerful woman in the world, and with Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan helped bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union and changed the course of history.

However, when asked what she believed was her most meaningful accomplishment, she replied that it was rescuing her sister’s Jewish pen-pal, Edith, from the Nazis.  “After the 1938 Anschluss, she persuaded her father and his Rotary Club to help Edith escape from Austria and to shelter her in Grantham.  This, Thatcher said, more than anything else, was her proudest achievement.

p. 312 “There is no alternative; why Margaret Thatcher matters,” (2008, Basic Books)