President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet who extended Rosh Hashonah greetings to American Jewry through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency were sharply attacked today by the Gazeta Warszawska, chief organ of the Endek anti-Semites.
The President and his cabinet were called the “Shabes Goim of the United States,” by the anti-Semitic paper. The term normally refers to a Gentile who in a Jewish home performs tasks forbidden Jews on Sabbath, such as lighting fires and others. In this connection, however, the Endek paper implies that the President is “a servant of the Jews.”
Gazeta Warszawska poked fun at President Roosevelt as “America’s first citizen who was the first to greet American Jews.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency also aroused the ire of the Endek paper,
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