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2020-05-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Historian: New evidence shows FDR's bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-15 03:29|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Had he not died in his 4th term, he would likely still be president today.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-15 03:34|| 2020-05-15 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Tell us something we don't know Besoeker.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-15 05:35|| 2020-05-15 05:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It wasn't just FDR, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes floated a plan for settlement in Alaska. The locals were hostile, they all weren't FDR Democrats.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-15 07:07|| 2020-05-15 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Juneau?
No I didn't know - really

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 07:18|| 2020-05-15 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused U.S. Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate

The more than 900 passengers of the M.S. St. Louis were denied entry by immigration authorities in multiple countries in the lead-up to the Holocaust.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-15 07:20|| 2020-05-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I liked the idea of giving the Jews a homeland in Baja California. Similar weather to Israel, less hostile neighborhood, and any Mexicans in the area would have seen a remarkable improvement in their standard of living.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-05-15 08:39|| 2020-05-15 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 It still amazes me that FDR worked with "Wild Bill" Donovan given the later's strong history of protecting his Jewish clients.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-15 09:33|| 2020-05-15 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 I can attest to second and third hand family knowledge of both of these things via my Dad, whose father knew a famous historian who knew of the aforementioned antisemitism in the Roosevelt administration, and in addition...

...my Dad had a good friend who was on the St. Louis, but jumped off and swam to shore when it was near Havana, but never saw his family again.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-05-15 12:15|| 2020-05-15 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 I did a research paper on FDR in eleventh grade (1978), and was forced to the same conclusion. I attempted to soften it by citing a politician’s perceived need not to trigger voter prejudices by importing Jews in noticeable numbers and the general prejudices of his class, but despite his willingness to use several clever Jews for specific tasks in his administration, his attitude was clear.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-15 13:49|| 2020-05-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Weird... growing up, I was under the impression he was Jewish, dunno why, possibly because of his Roosevelt name? Even more stupid, I never thought that of Teddy R.

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-15 14:18|| 2020-05-15 14:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Funny how the Democrat heroes are garbage people. Looking at you Wilson, Clinton, and Obama.

Carter was a terrible president, and wrong on nearly every issue but at least he wasn't such a terrible person as these.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-15 15:57|| 2020-05-15 15:57|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Naval Academy grad. Nuclear engineer. Small businessman.

Those formative experiences have a way of building character that being an academic, a lifelong ambitious pol + hound-dog or a self-mythologizing "community organizer" never will.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 18:08|| 2020-05-15 18:08|| Front Page Top

#13 because of his Roosevelt name

Oooooold money — the family settled in Nieuw Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. Definitely not Jewish.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-15 19:18|| 2020-05-15 19:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Apparently

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-15 19:56|| 2020-05-15 19:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, the first Jews arrived in New York in 1654, coming from Brazil after the Portugese took it back from the Dutch. I think it was still New Amsterdam at the time.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-05-15 21:55|| 2020-05-15 21:55|| Front Page Top

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