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State was accused of being one of the leading “Jewish lackeys” in America who
controlled U.S. foreign policy. He believed that Hull harbored “concealed Jewish blood
that enabled him to overcome his horror when he married the baptized full Jewess
Frances Witz” who was utilizing the “protocols of the 1897 World Jewish Congress in
Basel” to enable Jewish “world domination.” 72
Others have provided the counterargument that Roosevelt and his
Administration did everything that was possible within the context and constraints of
their time. The President faced criticism over the recession of 1937 and rising
unemployment (15% of the workforce), the high level appointments of a small number of
Jews (which led to his economic plans being labeled the “Jew Deal”), his failed attempt
to pack the Supreme Court with additional Justices, the need for political support from
Congressional Congressmen (especially Southern Democrats) who opposed increasing
and preferred further restrictions on immigration, fallout from his Quarantine speech and
the lowest popularity rating since taking office in 1933. 73
Faced with an increasingly
hostile and recalcitrant legislature FDR “felt obliged to husband his waning influence” on
Capitol Hill for higher priorities: Congressional allocations for military rearmament and
72 “What is Americanism?” by Julius Streicher, German Propaganda Archive available from
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ds1.htm; Internet; accessed March 3, 2010.
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U.S. unemployment figures:
1930: 8.9%
1932: 27%
1933: 25.2%
1935: 20.3%
1937: 14.5%
1939: 20.1%
“Open Knowledge—Americans Did Not Like Immigrant Jews,” June 16, 2006 available from
http://crasch.livejournal.com/429343.html; Internet; accessed February 17, 2008; “Deathly Silence
Teaching Guide: Bystander Psychology,” The Southern Institute for Education and Research available from
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/ds9.html; internet; accessed 0ctober 4, 2009.
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