Disappointment was expressed today in the Yiddish press at President Roosevelt’s remark in his report to Congress yesterday that he learned more about the Jewish problem from King Ibn Saud by talking with him for five minutes than he could have learned in the exchange of two or three dozen letters.
“Does this mean that the President had to ‘learn’ about the Jewish question from Ibn Saud?” the Jewish Morning Journal asks in an editorial. “And what about the Jewish attitude? Did he learn nothing from all the memoranda and dolegations he received? And what about his own promise to the Jews? Prime Minister Churchill at least reported that the Palestine question will be solved after the war is over, but President Roosevelt didn’t even say that much.”
The paper emphasizes that Zionists in America are bitterly disillusioned by Churchill’s and Roosevelt’s remarks with regard to the Jewish question. Disappointment is also expressed in The Day, another Jewish daily newspaper, which says that Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s remarks created “a painful situation for Jews.” The Day editorial urges the divergent factions within the American Zionist movement to settle their differences and bring about unity in Zionist ranks in the face of the new situation.
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