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The Jews Wait

against a whole people.

But the Jews themselves have a

But in conversation with the King and Queen the Ambassador must have been less objective. The King and Queen must have gained some idea of the personality of the man who will be their host at the White House.

who had gone into politics.

"The picture of a gracious house inhabited by a family of

nice people"

WHITE HOUSE

rooms are

Presidents

HOST

one of the biggest jobs in the

The only daughter is Mrs. John D. Boettiger, who is mar- ried to a newspaper proprietor in Seattle.

..

HE is required to know about and to approve every major decision taken by ench of his Cabinet Ministers. Yet when Shirley Temple calls

IN any case the charm of President Roosevelt is n by-word and a legend. You come to the United States knowing about it, and you go to Washington for the first time faintly irritated by

He the know argument late one night. lodge that

you are expected to said: "He made thundering fall under the President's spell. mistakes, but the good he done You nurture secret opinions and is bigger than the bad and-hell, doubts; you distrust these his- I like him anyway." trionic displays.

The head of the family, thirty- The President's wife says world. Nor is there any doubt second President of the United You then find yourself falling that although she does not be- that the job is being done from States, walks slowly and pain- flat on your face. In spite of lieve in ghosts there is a sense a headquarters wherein prevails fully with a stick because of the his dreadful reputation of being of the past hovering about the a kind of pleasant and friendly paralysis which afflicted bim likeable, you like the President. White House. She says that informality, an atmosphere of and which ho conquered since . The Jewish tragedy remains.

after you have lived there a good living in the real sense. the war; but in every other Custom cannot make the horror of

He comes from the strata of while you get a curious feeling

respect he is perhaps the most civilised Europe grow stale. For society to which the words that the upstairs

With the President in the intensively active man in Amer- Nazism has drawn up an indictment country gentleman" belong. places where people have lived White House during a good part ica.

Neither valour on the battlefield have been found living in a fairly when I am working late in my 84-year-old Mrs.

If he had been English ho might and worked hard. "Sometimes of the year are Mrs. Roosevelt

and the President's mother, the The amount of work he does, in Germany's cause nor a claim to large house on a trim estate in, room, where many

Sarah Roose the number of people he sees, eminence in the record of German say, Leicestershire; the product have worked. I get the distinct velt. Until recently the Fre- the responsibility he shoulders, art, science and literature is admitted of a good school and of Oxford feeling that there is somebody sident's lanky eldest son James his travelling and his outside as a passport of escape from the ban. lor Cambridge, moneyed but not else in the room."

also lived at the White House interests demand the sort of Four hundred thousand people, [rich, the head of a large and

and did a capable job as his unremitting energy you can hunted and pursued, wait only for active family a "county" figure the hammer to fall.

THE White House, stand- father's personal secretary. Jim- envy but not equal. The world does

slint its

ing back from Pennsyl- my Roosevelt is 31. Last year not sympathy, Human distress calls forth His social background in vania Avenue in grounds that the old Roosevelt ailment a full measure of human comfort. America is impeccable, and this are open to the public (who can gastric trouble-laid him low, fact has some bearing on the and do walk right past the and now he is working with Sam richer consolation than any which ferocity with which he is hated front door), may or may not Goldwyn in Hollywood,

by some of the Best People here. harbour ghosts). I never saw The President's second son at the White House he has time They say that he has ditched one there myself, but maybe Elliot, who is 28, is president to marvel at her story of how they would be unlikely to show and general manager of the one of her teeth came out while up in the President's study dur- Hearst radio stations and is the she was eating a sandwich. ing a Press conference.

father of two of the President's, When he retreats for the der-privileged and the anem- The only manifestation I ever eight grandchildren.

week-end to the Roosevelt witnessed in the White House Elliot Roosevelt does not often estate at Hyde Park, in up-State aristocracy. The two divisions was a large brown- dog-which-come-into the news these days. New York, secretaries accom- are social and financial, and the strolled into the study from the The last time he did was when pany him with piles of docu terrace while the President was he threatened to knock out the ments and reports for him to giving 30 or 40 newspapermen teeth of a man who had made a sign and read: but not long ago. The President is a Liberal, some inside facts on the Budget, derogatory remark about his he got an appealing letter from holding views which in England The dog, which had big flannel father,

ah unknown member of the Conservative, at least mild and wagged his tall for a while, then would be graded ns, if not feet and an amiable countenance, A

congregation of a little back- too, the other servants of the king.

FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt, country church 40 miles away, Down the palace steps came the unrevolutionary. In the United yawned and went out.

junior, the third son, is and he drove over and made a Prime Minister, Haman. He was the States, where employers keep I never learned his name, but 24, is married to one of the Du speech to a handful of wor- mightiest man in the kingdom, and stocks of machine-guns and it struck me that he fitted well Pont daughters, and is study shippers who were sitting in as he swept through the gates the tear-gas bombs for use if their into the pleasant White House ing law in Virginia, The young- shirt-sleeves because it was so king's servants would bow and scrape workmen should strike, and picture.

est son, John Roosevelt, is 28; hot. before him. Only Mordecal, the Jew, where it is possible to ruin a The picture is of a gracious and he was married a fow refused to lift his hat as the Prime politician's career by calling him house inhabited by a family of months ago to a shy and pretty telist, and General Hugh John- He is a fisherman and a phila- Radical, the President's nice people. President Roosevelt girl from Boston. When they son, that tough chaperon of the That was the beginning of a per-Liberalism shocks and frightens is 'sometimes described in came back from their honey- National Recovery Act, says he secution which was to rage across all the aristocrats. They call him magazine articles as the most moon John began work in a is one of the best poker players the 127 provinces from India to "That Man."

powerful man in the world. It Boston department store at 18 in Washington, Ethiopia which obeyed the edicts of

From the top (meaning Wall is not debatable that he is doing dollars (£3 128.) a week.

He wears suits without waist Street) down to small business-1

coats, white shirts and Cam- bridge-blue tics.

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It is to be found in the story of their people which they have carried with them ever since the Oriental became a European. It is the story which has sustained them in the pogrom and given solace in the

hours of durkness.

They can turn to the great docu- inents of their history and religion to read a story of triumph over in

tolerance.

Near by the gates of the Palace of Shushan sut Mordecal. He

was n

Jew, and around him were gathered,

Minister passed.

the Palace of Shushan. For Haman

was wild with anger.

He sent out letters

to

his own class."

He cares more about the un-

ployed than about either of the two divisions

of American

greater of these is financial..

all the men, who exhibit the char- provinces decreeing that on a certain acteristics of boy scouts follow- day all the Jews of the land, men, ing their patrol leaders, there women and children, were to be has spread an earnest phase of killed and their treasure looted to Roosevelt-hating. But a sub- All the king's coffers.

stantial majority of the country And for Mordecal a gallows was continues to love the President. prepared fifty cubits high.

Everything was ready for the The country's attitude to him fatal day. Haman had the taste of fat this moment is something vengeance on his lips. The Jews outside all previous political ex- arrayed themselves in sackcloth and perience. The New Deal, the ashes,

creed for which the President But, like other Prime Ministers, stands, has just been defeated Chancellors and mighty rulers, he and weakened at the elections: was to And that revenge would recoll on the persecutor, For

the and almost simultaneously the king in the Paince of Shushan stayed President's own popularity has the horror. And on the day of sharply risen.

reckoning It was not Mordecal, who,

climbed the steps to the gallows.

From such rich memories as this President the Jews of Germany can draw fresh

After six years of office the stands hend and

courage. They would not bow before shoulders above his own party National Socialism.

[and even above his own politics. But deep with them still remains There are various explanationa the love of that older Germany for it. One is that while the which, they served and which gave

them

shelter. They can be fortified country la tiring of the Roosevelt

to endure until the storm is past and domestic policy it increasingly once again they can live the lives of admires the Roosevelt foreign

free men.

They must know that service to policy. Another is that this is Germany

and devotion to their just a triumph of personality. native land will be in course of time But neither of these explana- their choice and duty.

tions is adequate. The eternal answer of the few. Is was

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to be found in their history. I

America is for the President the answer which Disgaell gave to because, leading it through the the jeers of Daniel O'Connell: toughest time it can remember, "I must remind the honourable mem- ho. behaved like a lender. I have ber," he said, "that when his ances never been able to improve. on tors were savager, in, en unknown fstand mine were pricats in the the words a New York taxi- Temple of Solomon,”amil

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He has all kinds of little man- nerisms; ho screws up his eyes, lifts his eyebrows sharply; and when he is listening to something that interests him ho purses his mouth into a round "O" Some- times when he does not hear what you said he says "Uh?” and sometimes when he agrees with you he says. "Yup, yup" There are somo scores of the Civil Servants and newspaper- men, regular attenders at the White House, whom ho calls by their first names, He likes to pull their legs and thoy, respect- fully addressing him as Mr. President, make sly cracks back at him. Many of the

news- papermen are violently opposed to him politically, and he knows. it. Nobody has ever seen bim. bored.

He may be, as you are likely to be told in Washington, im- pulsive and erratic, over-con- Odent sometimes, and some times quite wrong; but as a personality he has no match anywhere elso.In this land.s There is something about him, As General Johnson puts it, he lis an elemental force.