You know I’m not good a history – I have trouble remembering last week – so this was a stunner for me. I suspect it may even be eye opening to those historians that grace the pages here at NEO.
[ Yes, indeed. I first became aware of it in a subplot of Herman Wouk’s “The Winds of War” where it was openly acknowledged that anything to do with Jews would kill your career in the US Department of State, with an extraordinarily large percentage of Ivy League graduates.. I have mentioned that the reason that Generals Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley, add Patton forced coverage of the concentration camps was that they were sure that the USG and US news media would not cover them otherwise, just as they had not covered since early 1942 the camps till then in early 1945, although the USG had acknowledged them since early 1942. BTW Truman was an enthusiastic supporter. while FDR opposed the establishment of Israel, Neo]