Rightful Ownership Quotes
It was signed by over 400 American notables—politicians and clergy, Christian and Jewish. Signers included the Mayors of Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, congressmen and editors of most of the leading newspapers of the day. Blackstone’s Memorial predated the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl by 4 years and Blackstone, thought a Christian, was credited as being the “Father of Zionism” by many of the American Jewish Zionist leaders. See {614859}.
Since the English removed the Stone in 1296 to Westminster, all British Monarchs have been crowned while sitting over the Stone. Suffragettes had bombed the Stone in protest before the First World War cracking it in two. In 1950 some University of Glasgow students removed the two pieces from under the coronation chair of Westminster Abbey. After much publicity for their protest they returned it—repaired—in time for Elizabeth’s coronation. However, when it was repaired, Bertie Gray’s message was placed into the copper tube connecting the two pieces. After the Queen had sat upon the stone, the message was made public.
