FDR--ANOTHER PRESIDENT POPULAR WITH JEWS WHO LET THEM DOWN? Bernard Edinger writes about the findings in a new book by Jonathan Fenby in Great Britain, Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another. Edinger quotes from the book about a discussion with General Noguès, the governor in Rabat, Morocco about the future of Jews in North Africa--at a time when the Nazi murder of Jews was known:

Ceilings should be fixed for the number of Jews in professions in line with their percentage of the overall population, the president said. They should not overcrowd those professions, he added. Noguès replied that it would be “a sad thing for the French to win the war merely to open the way for the Jews to control the professions and business world of North Africa.

Enlarging on his quota idea, Roosevelt said it would eliminate "the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty per cent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc, in Germany were Jews." The 'understandable' was, at best, another sign of the president’s irresponsibility and his loose use of language to soft-soap whomever he was meeting. More likely, it represented a terrible blindness to the fate of European Jewry.

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