When Victims Rule (pdf)

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the war, Republican campaigners, referring to Roosevelt’s prominent Jewish associate
Sidney Hillman, put up billboards across the nation: ‘It’s Your Country–
Why Let Sidney Hillman Run It?”) [NOVICK, P., 1999, p. 42] “David Lilienthal
was chosen by Roosevelt to direct the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency that
virtually reshaped the role of government toward business. Later, he was also
chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.” [PLESUR, M., 1982, p. 142]
At least three of Roosevelt’s “Palace Guard”, reputedly his seven “most intimate
advisers,” were Jewish (Frankfurter, Niles, and Rosenman). [MURPHY,
B., 1983, p. 257] Rosenman was an official Roosevelt speechwriter; Frankfurter,
a Supreme Court justice, was an unofficial one. The judge also “gradually advanced
himself till he was virtually an informal campaign manager [of
Roosevelt’s presidential campaign], playing a central role in every aspect of the
campaign, from drafting speeches to plotting election strategy. [MURPHY, B.,
1983, p. 194-195, 205] “Roosevelt surrounded himself with so many unmistakably
Jewish advisers,” notes Barbara Matusow, “that his enemies took to branding
his programs the ‘Jew Deal.’” [MATUSOW, B., MAY 2000, p. 79] Leo Rosten
was a “popular Jewish writer” and head of the Office of War Information’s ‘Nature
of the Enemy’ department. [NOVICK, P., 1999, p. 27] In 1943, William
Bullitt, a former ambassador was complaining that “the Roosevelt administration’s
emphasis on the European war as opposed to the Asian one was the result
of Jewish influence.” [NOVICK, P., 1999, p. 28]
Roosevelt himself once joked, when running into Samuel Rosenman,
Stephen Wise (a rabbi and World Zionist Organization president) and Nahum
Goldmann (who succeeded Wise in the Zionist group) outside his weekend
home in the country (where Rosenman rented a home nearby): “Carry on,
boys, Sam will tell me what to do on Monday … Imagine what [Nazi leader]
Goebbels would pay for a photo of this scene: the President of the United States
taking his instructions from the three Elders of Zion.” [GOLDMANN, N., 1978,
p. 156] (Decades earlier, President Theodore Roosevelt’s Jewish circle included
Oscar Solomon Strauss, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor who declined an
offer to become the country’s Secretary of Treasury. “He was afraid,” says the director
of the American Jewish Historical Society, Michael Feldman, “too close
an association of Jews and money would be bad for the image of the Jew.” [LIE-
BLICH, J., 8-19-2000, p. A10] Earlier there was Julius Rosenwald, the Sears-
Roebuck mogul: “An unabashed admirer of the solid conservatism of William
Howard Taft, and one of his most loyal supporters within the Jewish community,
Rosenwald contributed generously to the campaigns of every Republican
candidate of his era. He was an especially ardent backer of his friend Herbert
Hoover, contributing $50,000 to Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign and becoming
a close adviser and confidant during his presidency.”) [DALIN, D.,
1998] Close to Hoover was also Lewis Strauss, Hoover’s “private secretary” and
“lifelong friend and trusted confidant.” “Strauss’ volunteer job would not only
start a lifelong friendship with Hoover but also open up channels of cooperation
and amity between Hoover and leading members of the jewish community.”
[WENTLING, S., 2000, p. 377, 382] “In March 1919, as the feast of Passover
approached, Hoover was asked to ensure that the Jews of Poland received flour
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