To a gathering of several thousand crammed into the Great Assembly Hall in Mile End, Rabbi Schewzik delivered an oration in which he described a three-fold sense of grief. First, there was loyalty to the country in which the Jews had ‘found a place of rest’ in a hostile world. Second, as a commercial people, Jews required peace for ‘enterprise and prosperity’, and no man had worked more assiduously to preserve it than Edward. Last, and most significant, the Jews had, with the death of the King, lost ‘their best friend, their protector and their father. He had set an example which might well be
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