Political quarters in Washington today placed little confidence in charges made by the U.S. News and World Report, a weekly magazine published here, that the version of the Yalta papers released by the State Department had been altered to delete alleged “slighting remarks” about Jews by President Roosevelt.
The publication said that deleted as “not pertinent history” was “a remark made about Jews by President Roosevelt at a plenary session of the Yalta conference on February 10. The remark came during a discussion of possible concessions to the late King Ibn Saud to secure a desired action from Saudi Arabia. According to the record, which has been deleted: “The President replied that there was only one concession he thought he might offer and that was to give him (Ibn Saud) the six million Jews in the United States.”
It was pointed out in some political circles here that U.S. News and World Report is a leading anti-New Deal organ which has frequently printed allegations against the Democratic Administration and Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.
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