The German radio stations heard here today are using the Cincinnati convention of the Zionist Organization of America as a pretext for a barrage of bitter tirades against President Roosevelt and alleged “Jewish influence in shaping American policies.”
Both the Paris and Lyons radio refer to the President’s a message to the convention as showing Jewish domination in American, while the Deutechlandsender comments heatedly on the resolution, passed at the convention, demanding that “England should declare Palestine a Jewish state.”
Other German broadcasts couple comment on the Zionist convention with furious attacks against Roosevelt in connection with the destroyer Greer incident. In one broadcast the President is described as “a despicable tool of international Jewry.” Another declares that “his inciting message to his Zionist brothers” contained a “clumsy lie” concerning the threat to Palestine. “This ridiculous assertion by Roosevelt directs the attention of the world toward the true instigators of the war world Jewry – and also makes Roosevelt a willing helper in its plans for world disasters,” the Nazi radio states.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
