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Relates Panic Among Wealthy in Pre-War Pearl Harbor
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
1 American people would then not i
display the moderation and discip- I
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WASHINGTON—Some "wealthy i line of the German people. but
Jews" in pre-Pearl Harbor Amer- : would proceed against the Jewish
ica rejected a militant anti-Nazi warmongers with ruthless sever- I
stand, and even flirted with isola- ity."
tionism to avoid anti-Semitism. be- "Out of these considerations,"
cause of their self-conscious fears.. said the Nazi diplomat. "far-sight-
according to a top-secret July 24 . : ed Jewish circles are avoiding tak- I
1941 evaluation by the German jog an active part in the warmon-
Embassy of American Jewish re- ' gering. and leave this to radical
sponses to the war then raging warmongers in the Roosevelt Cabi-
net and to English propaganda. In-
in Europe.
That report was cabled to Ber- dicative of this is that some of
the
lin by Nazi Charge d'Affaires Hans these Jews are trying to enter
Thomsen in Washington. It was America First committee. which
is the leading militant instrument
discovered in a new group of cap-
tured Nazi Foreign Ministry ar- of the isolationists."
chives just released by the Depart- ' Thomsen termed "noteworthy"
ment of State. -Another cable re- a statement attributed to one lead-
vealed how the Nazi embassy or- ing financier that a' victory by
ganized and financed the mailing Germany would not represent any
of anti-Roosevelt and anti-inter- kind of economic threat to Ameri-
vention propaganda by American ca. The Nazi carefully pointed out
congressmen to constituents. that the man was a .Jew. "The
wealthy Jews are alarmed by the
The 1941 cable on the reaction
warmongering and anti - business
of influential Jews in the United '
States. dispatched only a few tendency of the new deal,' which
dominated by numerous. often
-months before Pearl Harbor. was is
based on meetings of Nazi diplo- penniless, but all the more ambi-
mat Thomsen with influential tious Jews." :This was the Nazi
leaders of the Republican Party. , view.
opin-
"' Also," said Thomsen. "the
"For example," Thomsen told
ions of Americans who have been
Berlin, "one of the senators,
here for many generations are in-
traveled through a
who has just of
America on a creasing, to the effect that they
large part
no longer intend to allow them-
speaking campaign of several
weeks and. by so doing was able
to gather excellent information
regarding the present mood in
the country. mentioned that the
ideas under discussion had late -
Iy become subjects for conversa -
among American Jews
tion
themselves. The respected. Intel-
ligent and far-sighted Jews shar -
ed the same fears that. in case a
scapegoat later had to be found
for America's entry into the war.
this would be the American
JNF Dedicates Two Forests for Argentinian Jewry
A subsequent cable, sent top
secret July 30, 1941, told of the
subversive role of the Nazi
em-
the mass dispatch of post-
cards. The mailing of• millions of
post cards, bearing propaganda
slogans under the letterhead of the
United States Congress, was "or-
ganized and financed" by the Nazi
bassy in
press officer in Washington.
These cards "contained sarcastic
attacks on Roosevelt and warmon-
gering members of his Cabinet. re-
minders of the campaign promise
to keep. America out of war. a ref-
erence to American blood sacri-
fices in. the (first) world war, an
appeal to American mothers, and
they asked recipients to write or
telegraph in this sense to their
representatives in Congress and
the White House."
Thomsen confided that "as all
of the post cards had the letter-
head of the American Congress or
of the members of Congress con-
cerned, and mainly material which
was taken from purely American
sources and also appeared in one
form or another in the official
Congressional Record, our hand
was not in any way recognizable."
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Two spe- ed in Buenos Aires.
Participants in the twin sere
cial forests honoring Argentinian
Yaacov Tsur,
Jewish achievements were decli- monies included
cated by the Jewish National Fund. Israel's former ambassador to Ar-
One forest commemorates the 75th gentina. who is now world chair-
anniversary of the founding of man of the JNF; a number of for-
Mosesville. the first Argentine mer residents of Mosesville who
Jewish colony, established with the now live in Israel, some of them at
aid of Baron de Hirsch. the settlement of Niflasim, among
The other grove honors the 50th whose founders were ex - residents
anniversary of the Yiddische Zei- of Mosesville; and Argentine Am-
tung. the daily newspaper publish- bassador Adolfo Gass.
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He added that copies of "this
telegram and the pertinent papers
have been destroyed" to keep
secret the Nazi role in Washing-
selves to be kept on political lead- ton.
In another cable. Thomsen em-
ing strings and be criticized by
Jews who have newly immigrated phasized the "telling effect" of a
such as Felix Frankfurter, etc." post card sent out in a million
(Frankfurter was then• associate copies by Sen. Burton K. Wheeler
justice of the United States Su- of Montana. Seven members of the
House of Representatives are also
preme Court.)
listed as allowing such cards to be
Thomsen alleged to Berlin
sent out under their names.
that "the beginnings of such
ideas are to be observed all over
the country. - He added that, so
U. S.
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far, however, the Nazi Embassy
observed "no leadership and or
ganization for a possible anti
Jews. In
1918 it was the big in Semitic movement. particularly
dustrialists and Wall Street high
for the reason that the most im-
finance: this time it would be the
portant media of information
Jews."
such as press, radio and films
\ ccording to Thornsen, this
are ruthlessly controlled by :
th.iiiitu generated the fears of an
Jews. This control is made easier
element of affluent Jews. Thom- for them by the pro Jewish
-en conjectured
that "the. emo- policy of Roosevelt."
...natty. exceedingly e x c it a b l e
Defated Candidate
Apologkizes to Jews
of Memphis for Slur
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defeated Republican candidate
here for the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives, who issued a post-elec-
tion statement against which many
Jews here had protested, apolo-
gized to the Jewish community and
asked local Jews "and all others
who may have been offended to
forgive me."
The unsuccessful candidate,
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to the Hebrew Watchman, local
Jewish weekly, whose editor re-
ported he had received protests
against Jam es' post-election
statement from "many irate
Jewish citizens."
In his statement. after the na-
tional elections. James had said
that he had received "an over-
whelmly high percentage of the
votes of the respectable people
in the community." He had also
stated: "I had hoped against hope
that the Jewish group would see
things my way. I am a business-
man. They are businessmen. Ap-
parently I didn't succeed. I am
amazed that I couldn't. If ever
there was a group that should be
conservative, they should."
In reply to that statement,
James E. Irwin, the county Demo-
cratic chairman here, said: "Mr.
James' reference to the Jewish
vote and respectable voters is the
most bigoted statement I have ever
heard from a major candidate."
James telephoned the editor of
the Hebrew Watchman and apolo-
gized for his statement, then wrote
a letter of apology printed in the
Jewish weekly.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 Friday, November 27, 1964
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