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sador, Joseph P. Ken- nedy, has lunched, dined and week-ended with the King and Queen during the last year, and it is a fairly safe bet that on one or more of those occasions he talked about his friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The President and Joe Ken- nedy are buddies. In 1936, when the campaign to elect the

Be proud of the appearance of your President for a second term automobiic.

was hotly raging, Joe Kennedy Keep the finish looking like new by wrote a book called "I'm For pollashing or waxing. clean the windows and polish the chromium. Roosevelt." It is full of tables These are all important steps towards and graphs and economic argu-

the beauty of your car,

But

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ments why business men and others should vote for the Pre- sident. It does not say any- thing about the affection that

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The Jews Wait

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

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

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

nice people"

WHITE

HOUSE

HOST

one of the biggest jobs in the

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

ica.

LEWIS-On June 7, 1930, at 517, ledge that you are expected to said: "He

faintly irritated by the know argument late one night. He The Peak, Hongkong, William

mado thundering Archibald, dearly beloved father fall under the President's spell. mistakes, but the good he done of Mrs. J. H. L. Turner and You nurture secret opinions and is bigger than the bad and-hell, Leslie A. Lewis and loving 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 him likeable, you like the President. White House. She says that informality, an atmosphere of and which he conquered since after you have lived there a good living in the real senso. the war; but in every other He comes from the strata of while you get a curious feeling society to which the words that the upstairs rooms

With the President in the respect he is perhaps the most "country If he had been English he might and worked hard.

gentleman" belong. places where people have ved White House during a good part intensively active man in Amer-

"Sometimes of the year are Mrs. Roosevelt have been found living in a fairly when I am working late in my and the President's mother, the The amount of work he does, large house on a trim estate in, room, where many Presidents 84-year-old Mrs. Sarah Roose the number of people ho sees, the Pre- the responsibility he shoulders, say, Leicestershire; the product have worked.. I get the distinct velt. Until recently of a good school and of Oxford feeling that there is somebody sident's lanky eldest son James his travelling and his outside The Jewish tragedy remains, or Cambridge, moneyed but not else in the room."

also lived at the White House interests demand the sort of Custom cannot make the horror of rich, the head of

and did a capable job as his unremitting energy you a large and civilised Europe grow stale. For active family a "county" figure Nazism has drawn up an Indictment who had gone into politics.

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

ing back from Pennsyl- my Roosevelt is 31. Last year against a whole people.

HE is required to know Neither valour on the battlefeld His social background in vania Avenue in grounds that the old Roosevelt aliment

about and to approve in Germany's cause nor a claim to America is impeccable, and this are open to the public (who can gastric trouble laid him low, eminence in the record of German fact has some bearing on the and do walk right past the and now he is working with Sam every major decision taken by

or may not Goldwyn in Hollywood.

cach of his Cabinet Ministers. ari, science and Uterature is admitted ferocity with which he is hated front door), may

Yet when Shirley Temple calls Baw The President's usa passport of escape from the ban. by some of the Best People here, harbour ghosts). I never

second son at the White House he has time Four hundred thousand people. They say that he has ditched one there myself, but maybe Elliot, who is 28, is president to marvel at her story of how hunted and pursued, wait only for his own class."

they would be unlikely to show and general manager of the flo hammer to fall, The world does

up in the President's study dur- Hearst radio stations and is the one of her teeth came out while

she was eating a sandwich. sympathy, Human distress calls forth He cares more about the un- ing a Press conference.

father of two of the President's When he retreats for the n full measure of human comfort, der-privileged and the unem- But the Jews themselves have a ployed than about either of the

The only manifestation I ever eight grandchildren.

week-end to the Roosevelt Elliot Roosevelt does not often estate at Hyde Park, in up-State richer consolution than any which two divisions of American witnessed in the White House Gentiles can provide...

ry aristocracy. The two divisions was a large brown dog which come into the news these days. New York, secretaries -accom~ It is to be found in the slory of their people which they

have 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 carried with them ever since the greater of these is financial. Oriental became European. It is

giving 30 or 40 newspapermen teeth of a man who had made a sign and read: but not long ago. the story which has sustained them in The President is a Liberal, some inside facts on the Budget, derogatory remark about his he got an appealing letter from the pogrom and given solace in the holding views which in England The dog, which had big flannel father.

They can turn to the great docu- would be graded as, if not feet and an amiable countenance,

hours of darkness.

tolerance.

not slint its

can

an unknown member of the ments of their history and religion to Conservative, at least mild and wagged his tall for a while, then FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt, congregation of a little back- country church 40 miles away, read a story of triumph over in-unrevolutionary. In the United yawned and went out.

junior, the third son, is and he drove over and made a I never learned his name, but 24, is married to one of the Du speech to a handful of wor- Near by the gates of the Palace of States, where employers keep Shuahan sat Mordecal. He was a stocks of machine-guns and it struck me that he fitted well Pont daughters, and is study shippers who were sitting in Jew, and around him were gathered, tear-gas bombs for use if their into the pleasant White House ing law in Virginia. The young shirt-sleeves because it was so too, the other servants of the king, workmen should strike, and picture.

est son, John Roosevelt, is 28; hot. Down the pulace stops came the

ras married a few Prime Minister, Haman, He was the where it is possible to ruin a The picture is of a gracious and he

He is a fisherman and a phila- nightiest man in the kingdom, and politician's career by calling him house inhabited by a family of months a to a shy and pretty telist, and General Hugh, John- as le swept through the gates the a Radical, the President's nice people. President Roosevelt girl from Boston. When they king's servants would bow and scrape Liberalism shocks and frightens is sometimes described in came back from their honey. Bon, that tough chaperon of the before him. Only Mordecal, the Jew,

National Recovery Act, says he refused to lift his hat as the Prime the aristocrats. They call him magazine articles as the most moon John began work in a

"That Man."

powerful man in the world. It Boston department store at 18 18 one of the beat poker players

in Washington. secution which was to rage across all From the top (meaning Wall is not debatable that he is doing dollars (£3 128.) a week.

Ho wears suits without waist the 127

provinces from India to Street) down to small business-

coats, white shirts and Cam- Ethiopia which obeyed the edicts of the Palace of Shushan. For Haman men, who exhibit the char-

|bridge-blue tica. He has a pro- By Lichtyminent square jaw, very good wild with

acteristics of boy scouts follow- He sent out leiters to ali the ing their patrol leaders, there provinces decreeing that on a certain has spread an earnest phase of day all the Jews of the land, men Roosevelt-hating. But a sub- stantial majority of the country continues to love the President.

Minister passed.

That was the beginning of a per-

was

anger.

were to

bo

women and children, filled and their treasure looted to in the king's coffers.

And for Mordecai a gallows was

Afty cubits high.

The country's attitude to him ng was ready for

the at this moment is something fatal day. Haman had the taste of

Jews outside all previous political ex vengeance on his lips. The arrayed themselves in sackcloth and perience. The Now Deal, the ashes.

creed for which the President Ilke other Prime Ministers, stands, has just been defeated Chancellors and mighty rulers, and weakened at the elections: was to find that revenge would

But,

reccit on the persecutor. For the and almost simultaneously the king in the Palace of Shushan stayed President's own popularity has the horror: And on the day of sharply risen.

reckoning it was not: Mordecai who climbed the steps to the gallows.

From such rich memories as this

the Jews of Germany can draw fresh courage. They would not bow before National Sociulism.

After six years of office the head and President standa shoulders above his own party. and even above his own politics. But deep with them still remains There are various explanations the love of that plder Germany which they served and which gave for it. One is that while the them shelter. They can be fortilled country Is 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 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:cholceland duty.g

free men.

The eternal answer of the Jewlatione te adequate.

“I must remind the honourable, meni-

to be found in their history. It was America fa for the President | the answer which Disraeli gave to because, leading it through the the jeers of Daniel O'Connell: toughest time it can remember, ber" he said, that when his ances he behaved like a leader. I have tors were savages in an unknown never been able to improve on island. mine were priests in the the Corda a New York taxi- Temple of Solomon."

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teeth, and a mole over his left eyebrow. He smokes cigarettes in a long amber holder.

He has all kinds of little man- norisms; he screws up his eyes, lifts his eyebrows sharply; and [when he is listening to something that interests him he purses his mouth into a round “0.”........ 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 some scores of the Civil Servants and newspaper... men, regular attenders at the White House, whom he calls by their first names. Ho likes to pull their legs and they, respect- fully addressing him as Mr. President, make sly cracks back- at him. Many of the newE“. papermen are violently opposed to him politically, and he knows it. Nobody has ever seen him bored.

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

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