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FDR 1943 FDR 1932 1934 1941 Man of the Year Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Cordell Hull Secretary of State 1933-1944 America’s Longest Serving Secretary of State Nobel Peace Prize – 1945 “The Father of the United Nations” 1940 Cordell Hull Henry Morganthau Secretary of the Treasury 1933-1945 1943 Morganthau Roosevelt and Morganthau Henry Stimson Secretary of War 1911 - 1913 1940 - 1945 Secretary of State 1929 - 1933 Gov. Gen of the Philippines 1929 - 1933 Henry Stimson Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover Secretary of War under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman. Sumner Welles Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Herman Goering 1940 Fr. Charles Coughlin "The Radio Priest" 30 million weekly listeners “Father of Hate Radio” War Refugee Board Meeting, 21 March 1944 Hull, Morganthau and Stimson Coughlin Coughlin 1934 Rev. Charles Coughlin Coughlin’s weekly publication 1938 - Coughlin publishes version of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Breckenridge Long Ambassador to Italy under Roosevelt Head of the Visa Section, Department of State Used his position to impede the ability of Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution to seek refuge in the United States. Henry Stimson Secretary of War Memo from Asst. Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, to State Department Officials June 26, 1940, “effective ways to obstruct the granting of U.S. visas” “We can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the number of immigrants into the United States. We could do this by simply advising our consuls, to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas.” US State Department handled “Jewish Questions” for Breckenridge Long Robert Borden Reams Wilbur Carr US Minister to Prague 1937 “Father of the US Foreign Service” George Messersmith Asst Secretary of State US Consul 1933-37 Germany and Austria 1946 George Messersmith Josiah DuBois Asst. Secretary of the Treasury 1944-45 Gen. Counsel War Refugee Board John McCloy Asst Secretary of War McCloy spent most of his time working on issues involving postwar Germany. Morganthau Gerhart Riegner World Jewish Congress Representative in Switzerland Sends “Riegner Cable” to Rabbi Stephen Wise Rabbi Stephen Wise Reigner Cable August 28, 1942 from Gerhard Reigner in Switzerland to Rabbi Stephen Wise “in Fuehrer's headquarters plan under consideration to exterminate at one blow this fall three and half to four millions Jews following deportation from countries occupied, controlled by Germany” Riegner Telegram RECEIVED ALARMING REPORT THAT IN FUHRER'S HEADQUARTERS PLAN DESCUSSED AND UNDER CONSIDERATION ACCORDING TO WHICH ALL JEWS IN COUNTRIES OCCUPIED OR CONTROLLED GERMANY NUMBERING 3½ FOUR MILLION SHOULD AFTER DEPORTATION AND CONCENTRATION IN EAST BE EXTERMINATED AT ONE BLOW TO RESOLVE ONCE FOR ALL THE JEWISH QUESTION IN EUROPE STOP ACTION REPORTED PLANNED FOR AUTUMN METHODS UNDER DISCUSSION INCLUDING PRUSSIC ACID STOP WE TRANSMIT INFORMATION WITH ALL NECESSARY RESERVATION AS EXACTITUDE CANNOT BE CONFIRMED STOP Francis Perkins Secretary of Labor 1933-1945 Harold Ickes Secretary of the Interior 1933-1946 Evian International Conference on Refugees July 1938 Evian International Conference on Refugees July 1938 The American Delegate: "We are coming to try to figure out what to do for the Jews, but no nation will be asked to take any more Jews than its quota already allows." “The Bergson Boys” Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) led a dissident group of Zionists known in the United States as the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe.. Rabbi Stephen Wise Rabbis’ March on Washington 1943 ‘We Will Never Die” Pageant in New York, 1943 “We will never die” NYC, 1943 Elmo Roper poll 1939 53 percent of Americans feel “Jews are “different” and require “social and economic restrictions.” Gallup poll 1939 83 percent of Americans “oppose the admission of a larger number of Jewish refugees.” Jan Karski Courier from the Polish Underground Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Livadia Palace in Yalta (9 FEB 1945) 1940 Washington, DC Charles Lindbergh Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt 14 Feb 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Farouk of Egypt at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt, 13 Feb 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill in Teheran, Iran (11 NOV 1943)