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  In 1933, Roosevelt gave Rose Schneiderman a position on the Labor Advisory Board, created under the National Recovery Act. Anna Rosenberg was on the board of the National Recovery Administration and on the War Manpower Commission in the Defense Department during the war. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins named Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca to head the Maternal and Child Welfare Committee. In 1936, Eleanor Roosevelt invited Pauline Newman and a delegation of female garment and textile workers to spend a week at the White House.238 Rosenberg, President Harry S. Truman’s assistant secretary of defense, ultimately became a wealthy public relations professional for corporate America.239

  The United States had severed diplomatic relations with Russia on December 6, 1917, because the Bolsheviks had refused to honor debts that the czarist government had incurred. Henry Morgenthau and Dean Acheson, both Felix Frankfurter protégés, invited Maxim Litvinov (born Litvinov Finkelstein) to the White House to finalize recognition of the Soviet Union with FDR, something the Soviets had sought for seventeen years.240 Litvinov was one of the Bolshevik conspirators who held a strategy session with Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, and Kaganovich in Switzerland before going to Russia just prior to the revolution.241 Acheson, formerly a law clerk for Justice Brandeis, was one of Stalin’s lawyers, even before FDR recognized the Soviets.242

  One of Roosevelt’s first official acts was welcoming Litvinov to the White House. FDR, from a prominent, wealthy capitalist family, began transforming America into a communist state. He legitimized the Bolsheviks after they had plundered Russia and starved and slaughtered millions of Russians. Litvinov had several strategies for communizing the American hemisphere, and now the Bolsheviks had a president who would gladly cooperate with their objectives. Many patriotic organizations and individuals implored FDR not to develop allegiances with Moscow. However, he took advice from Marxists, including intellectuals, labor union radicals, and university professors. Dean Acheson and Henry Morgenthau, both Felix Frankfurter protégés, convinced FDR, without congressional approval, to sanction the establishment of a Soviet Embassy and to recognize the Soviet government, which he did on November 16, 1933.243 Acheson, founder of the Atlantic Council, is considered responsible for creating NATO and imposing it on Europe. FDR then appointed Acheson and Morgenthau to “study” trade opportunities with the Soviets.244

  FDR’s advisers, most of them Jews, all advocated communism. They were close to the international bankers and anxious to destroy Germany.245 Russian-born Isador Lubin was a US representative to the United Nations. Russian-born Leo Pasvolsky held an influential position in the State Department and was the executive director of the Committee on the Postwar Program. Samuel Rosenman, as “special counsel,” wrote most of FDR’s speeches. Herbert Lehman, director of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), directed funds, mostly from the United States, to Soviet satellite countries, as a consequence of the Yalta and Potsdam decisions.246 Lehman had been Roosevelt’s lieutenant governor in New York.

  Roosevelt’s Ethnic Background

  The Daily Citizen of Tucson, Arizona, published a genealogical pedigree of FDR on February 29, 1934. In addition, Dr. H. H. Laughlin directed the preparation of a genealogical chart of FDR for the Carnegie Institution, which the Associated Press news agency dispatched to its membership on March 7, 1934. Both documents claim to substantiate Roosevelt’s Jewish ancestry, which provides an explanation for many of his radical policies and his administration’s legislation. It also reveals why he favored hundreds of Jews, socialists, and communists for high positions within the government. On March 14, 1935, The New York Times quoted him as saying, “In the distant past my ancestors may have been Jews. All I know about the origin of the Roosevelt family is that they are apparently descended from Claes Martenszen van Roosevelt, who came from Holland.”247

  FDR’s mother was Sarah Delano, probably from a family that may have been part of the migration of Sephardic Jews who fled from Spain to Portugal and from there to Antwerp. After the closure of Antwerp’s harbor in 1585, the Jews went to Amsterdam and through the generations became part of the community’s business class. However, by choice, they remained a separate ethnic minority.248 FDR’s wife was a distant cousin and a niece of Theodore Roosevelt. The Universal Jewish Dictionary of 1943 states, “After Sarah Delano Roosevelt’s death, in 1941, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation purchased the Roosevelt home in New York City and converted it into the Sarah Delano Roosevelt Interfaith House for students of Hunter College.”249

  The Associated Press, on May 8, 1937, reported, “President Roosevelt will receive the tenth award of the Gottheil Medal for ‘Distinguished services to Jewry.’” On December 23, 1938, he was awarded another Jewish medal, according to the New York Herald-Tribune of that date. Some Jewish organizations referred to him as the “new Moses.” On May 14, 1939, Professor Johann van Leers of Berlin conducted an “exhaustive analysis” of FDR’s ancestry and concluded that Sarah Delano was from a Jewish-blood family. He said that the Delano family descended from an Italian or Spanish Jewish family. A large number of Jewish settlers emanated from Holland. New York Jews on the East Side regularly referred to the president as “Rosenvelt.”250

  FDR’s decisions at the Yalta conference (February 4-11, 1945) accommodated Stalin and the Soviets and helped spread communism in China, in Eastern Europe, and especially in America. He accomplished more for the communists than anyone else outside of the USSR did.251

  Targeting the National Socialists

  Lithuanian-born Samuel Dickstein, a liberal Jew,252 a good friend to Rabbi Wise,253 originated the idea of establishing the House Un-American Activities Committee, allegedly to investigate communist activities in America, but more important, to target right-wing seditionists, especially National Socialists. Dickstein served in the New York Legislature from 1919 to 1922) and sponsored the state’s first kosher food laws. Thereafter, twenty other states adopted similar laws. In 1933, he had called for a congressional investigation of anarchists. Interestingly, he was, for many years, a Soviet agent nicknamed “Crook.”254 He gave committee transcripts and names of possible double agents to the Russians, for which he received about $183,000 (2010 dollars).255 256

  To further take the focus off of what the Jews were doing, on January 3, 1934, Dickstein, as the chairman of the Committee on Naturalization and Immigration, introduced and got passed a resolution to initiate an official investigation of pro-Nazi activities in America. Dickstein, who was breaking new ground, claimed to have numerous “smuggled documents,” letters, and an individual, a Mr. X, who was willing to testify. During floor debate on the resolution, a representative from Nebraska suggested that “the whole thing (is) a scheme by Jews to offend German-Americans like those in [my] state who admire the Führer.” Others opined that the real danger facing America stemmed from communists and their fellow travelers—in those days, a buzzword for Jews and foreigners. However, Congress passed Dickstein’s resolution by a vote of 168-31.257

  German Americans were becoming so influential and effective that Moscow was concerned. Therefore, the Soviets strengthened their counterattack against pro-German activities and organizations in America. They were so effective that, according to Soviet intelligence, they triggered William Randolph Hearst’s antagonism toward the Soviet Union, which they viewed as a big problem. They sought to obtain incriminating material on him and his potential relationship with Nationa Socialist Germany. They also attempted to position an “internal source” inside the Hearst organization. The New York Post had a Soviet agent who revealed information gathered from one of Hearst’s journalists.258

  In September 1935, Soviet officials considered German influence in the United States to be so powerful that they had to counter it, using their agents, with the following objectives:

  1)Exposure of German work directed against Soviet interests with respect both to worsening Soviet relations with the United States and intelligence work directed against
Soviet institutions in America and in the USSR.

  2)Exposure of German agents in US institutions, first of all in the State Department and intelligence organizations.

  3)Exposure of German work against the Communist Party of the United States.259

  The Soviets decided that their best strategy was to direct public attention to anti-Semitism. Given that several Jewish organizations were already in place to fight anti-Semitism, this would be efficacious. Many Jewish politicians, some of them working as Soviet agents within the government, would augment the material produced by the Jewish factions.

  In the 1930s, there was rampant anti-Semitism in America, particularly in the Midwest. Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit, dubbed the Radio Priest, and William D. Pelley of Minneapolis, among others, openly called for dismissing Jews from positions of responsibility, if not driving them from the country itself. Organized Brown Shirts in New York and Silver Shirts in Minneapolis outraged and terrorized American Jewry. While the older and more respectable Jewish organizations pondered a response that would not alienate non-Jewish supporters, others—including a few rabbis—asked gangsters to break up American Nazi rallies.

  Jewish leaders, according to Robert Rockaway in the journal of the American Jewish Historical Society, had a difficult time with the German-American Bund rallies in New York City. Despite their efforts to halt them, there were no legal grounds. New York State Judge Nathan Perlman requested the help of Meyer Lansky, an organized crime leader, in breaking up the rallies. Perlman’s only stipulation was that Lansky’s cronies beat the Bundists but not kill any of them. Lansky declined any payment for the assignment but later said, “I was a Jew and felt for those Jews in Europe who were suffering. They were my brothers.” His accomplices disrupted numerous National Socialist rallies. They broke lots of arms, legs, ribs, and skulls but did not kill anyone.260

  Fifteen of Lansky’s boys broke up a Brown Shirt demonstration in Manhattan. A swastika and a photo of Hitler were on the stage. They threw some of the attendees out of windows and chased and beat many others. Jews wanted to show that they would not sit back and “accept insults.” Pelley planned a Silver Shirt Legion rally in Minneapolis to save “America from an imaginary Jewish-Communist conspiracy.” Minneapolis gambling czar David Berman and his Jewish cronies interrupted the rally held at an Elks lodge. The National Socialist leader referred to the invaders as “Jew bastards” whom the city should expel. Berman and others rushed into the meeting room and began busting heads, ultimately emptying the hall. Berman, covered with blood, grabbed the microphone and declared, “This is a warning. Anybody who says anything against Jews gets the same treatment. Only next time it will be worse.” He disrupted two other rallies, ending the Silver Shirt meetings in Minneapolis.261

  Following World War II, Jewish gangsters aided in the establishment of the Israeli state. In 1945, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, part of the Lansky crime syndicate, met with Reuven Dafne, a Haganah emissary, and paid him fifty thousand dollars in cash with which he acquired guns and ammunition to forcibly persuade the British to leave Palestine. Siegel was under the erroneous impression that Jews were docile and submissive and unwilling to fight. Dafne assured him that the Jews were fearless fighters.262 In fact, Jews had engaged in terrorism for decades.

  The lengthy history of Jewish criminality, whether on the streets, in the casinos, or in their efforts to take over countries and steal natural assets, is well recognized. Israel misrepresented itself in the worldwide media as the Middle East’s “bulwark of democracy” throughout the Cold War, especially after the dissolution of Israeli-USSR relations. The Trotskyites, otherwise known as neocons, like Bill Krystal and his associates, introduced the term “Islamofascists” to refer to the Muslims, this era’s version of the Nazis, a group they have destined for destruction.263

  Dickstein investigated and began harassing the German American Bund, formally established in March 1936, calling it a subversive organization. On February 20, 1939, at New York’s Madison Square Garden, twenty thousand people attended a rally at which Fritz Kuhn delivered a speech criticizing FDR, referring to him as Frank D. Rosenfeld and blasting his “Jew Deal.” He said that America’s leadership was under Bolshevik-Jewish control. The German American Bund was closely associated with Father Coughlin. The FBI investigated its relationship to the National Socialist party in Germany.

  The Bund issued several publications, one titled What Price [the] Federal Reserve: Read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Understand the New Deal. In this open letter, dated January 14, 1938, to Secretary Chester Morrill of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, N. W. Rogers pointed out that a massive number of Jewish immigrants had taken positions of authority in the government. “In March, 1935, some $647,000,000 was, by Executive Order, withdrawn from circulation by calling in the bonds backing National Bank notes in exchange for Federal Reserve notes,” Rogers wrote. “But, the Federal Reserve banks, in turn, surrendered the bonds for gold notes. It would seem that in the transaction there was something suggestive of swindling… The Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended in 1935, extracted some 290 million dollars more from the taxpayers.”264

  Rogers described the “cruel and merciless” process of farm foreclosures and mortgages that “rob industrious, thrifty, peaceable country-loving, law-abiding American citizens of years of weary toil, to turn over to men who never performed a day’s labor, produced a dollar’s worth of wealth, rendered any useful services to society, who have done nothing, in fact, to aid the advancement of a true civilization or to furnish the slightest pretext for their own existence.” He compared them to “parasites that fatten on other organisms,” but said they were worse than parasites, which “do not intimidate, discriminate, or deceive their prey,” using “ruthless indifference to extract the very lifeblood of their helpless victims.”265

  Rogers said that Congress through legislation had “permitted the predatory privileged interests” to seize and enjoy all of the “industrial progress and material achievements” and all of “the benefits, advantages and blessings” inherently belonging to the people. The predators imposed laws on the people “to enrich themselves, at the expense of the real wealth producers of the Nation.” This caused a “decline of the purchasing power of the farmer, resulting from the rapid and unwarranted decline in the prices of farm produce.” This, he said, was “evidently the chief cause of the depression, which started with the basic industry, communicated itself to every other branch of the industrial organization, causing a dislocation of the various parts of the whole intricate network of production.”266

  NKVD records made public after the collapse of the Soviet Union revealed Dickstein’s role as an agent. The Roosevelt administration and the Jewish-controlled media collaborated with the congressman in demonizing and incarcerating Fritz Kuhn, the Bund’s chairman, on a fabricated embezzlement charge in 1939.267 Author Philippa Sturm failed to mention Dickstein’s investigation and harassment of the group, but explained that the Bund ended its activities because the American media were “carrying stories of Hitler’s troops rampaging through Europe and with the American military draft in place, the Nazis had stopped marching.”268

  Martin Dies’ Committee

  Martin Dies, chairman of the House Committee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities, asked the new Congress for $1 million to fund a probe of the Works Progress Administration and the Public Works Administration. He stated his determination to rid the government of such saboteurs as Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and other “Communists and fellow-travelers.”269 The investigation failed, as FDR stacked the government with people who would not censure their cohorts. Baruch mentored Hopkins and advised him to try to become secretary of war. Baruch saw war looming and believed that the War Department would become the most significant of all agencies.270 He devised and was the key author of an industrial mobilization plan that would enable the country “to
pass from a peace to a war status with a minimum of confusion, waste and loss.”271

  FDR told Dies to stop annoying the communists because “We need those votes!” Roosevelt endeavored to squelch the congressman’s investigation, which found that there were at least two thousand communist subversives working within the federal government.272 FDR allowed the strategic placement of many European “refugees” at the beginning of World War II and let these noncitizens obtain important government positions without official investigation. This initiated the policy of arbitrary hiring, which dictated that the government could not deny employment to individuals based on race, creed, or national origin, a policy detrimental to American security, especially involving the atomic projects.273

  There were numerous Soviet operatives within the Roosevelt Administration—some directed by American Community Party leader Earl Browder—in addition to the infiltrators who staffed the growing number of bureaucratic agencies. Some operated in the Ware Group and later, during the war, in the Silvermaster Network under Soviet agent and economist Nathan G. Silvermaster, who kept tight control over the officials who were collecting and transferring intelligence to the Soviets while implementing programs beneficial to Moscow.274