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The Jews Wait

The Jewish tragedy

against a whole people.

remains.

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

nice people"

WHITE HOUSE

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.

faintly irritated by the know. argument inte one night. Ho ledge 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."

The head of the family, thirty- trionic displays.

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- at 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 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 With the President in the intensively active man in Amer- civilised Europe grow slale. For society to which the words that the upstairs rooms are Nazism has drawn up an indictment country gentleman" belong, places where people have lived White House during a good part ica.

If he had been English he might and worked hard. "Sometimes of the year are Mrs. Roosevelt Neither valour on the battlefield have been found living in a fairly when I am working late in my 84-year-old Mrs.

The amount of work he does, and the President's mother, the 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, Presidents eminence in the record of German Bay, Leicestershire; the product have worked. I get the distinct velt. Until recently the Pre- the responsibility he shoulders, art, selence and literature is admitted of a good school and of Oxford feeling that there is somebody also lived at the White House interests demand

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."

the sort of Four hundred thousand people, rich, the head of a large and

and did a capable job as his unremitting energy you

the hammer to fall."

who had gone into politics. The world does not stiat Its sympathy, Human distress calls forth a full measure But the

hunted and pursued, wait only for active family a "county" figure THE White House, stand- father's personal secretary. Jim- envy but not equal.

Jews itemselves

Gentiles con provide.

have a

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

hours of darkness.

tolerance..

+

the old Roosevelt ailment

can

ing back from Pennsyl- my Roosevelt is 31. Last year

HE is required to know about and to approve His social background in vania Avenue in grounds that of human comfort. America is Impeccable, and this are open to the public (who can gastric trouble--laid him low,

each of his Cabinet Ministers. 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. richer corisolation than any which ferocity with which he is hated front door), may

Yet when Shirley Temple calls The President's second son at the. White House he has time by some of the Best People here. harbour ghosts). I never saw story They say that he has ditched one there myself, but maybe Elliot, who is 28, is president to marvel at her story of how

"his own d ss."

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. He cares more about the un- ing a Press conference.

father of two of the President's

When he retreats for the der-privileged and the unem-

The only manifestation I ever eight grandchildren.

week-end to the Roosevelt the pogton and given solice in the ployed than about either of the witnessed in the White House Elliot Roosevelt does not often estate at Hyde Park, in up-State

two divisions of American

large brown dog which come into the news these days. New York, secretaries Accom- They can turn to the great docu-aristocracy. The two divisions was ments of their history and religion to 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 read a story of triumph over in-greater of these is financial. 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 Near by the gates of the Palace of holding views which in England The dog, which had big flannel father.

an unknown member of the Shushian sat Mordecal. He was a would be graded as, if not feet and an amiable countenance, o Jew, and around him were gathered, Conservative, at least mild and wagged his tail for a while, then

congregation of a little back- FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt, country church 40 miles away. too, the other servants of the king.

junior, the third son, is and he drove over and made a Down the palace steps came the unrevolutionary. In the United yawned and went out,

I never learned his name, but 24, is married to one of the Du speech to a handful of wor- Prime Minister. Haman, He was the States, where employers keep mightiest man in the kingdom, and stocks of machine-guns and it struck me that he fitted well Font 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

est son, John Roosevelt, is 23 hot. king's servants would bow and scrape workmen should strike, and picture. before him. Only Mordecal, the Jew, where it is possible to ruin a The picture is of a gracious and he was married a few

He is a fisherman and a phila- refused to lift his but 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- Minister passed.

Radical, the President's nice people. President Roosevelt girl from Boston. When they son, that tough chaperon of the

sometimes That was the beginning of a per- Liberalism shocks and frightens is

described in came back from

their honey- National Recovery Act, saye 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

powerful man in the world. It Boston department store-at-18

in Washington. is not debatable that he is doing dollars (£3 129.) a week.

the 127 provinces from India to ""That Man.” Ethiopia which obeyed the edicts of

the Palace of Shushan.

was wild with anger.

He sent out letters to

For Haman

all

From the top (meaning Wall Street) down to small business- 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 sub- fill the king's coffers.

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

Everything was ready for

The country's attitude to him fatal day. Haman had the taste of at this moment is something vengeance on his lips. The Jews outside all previous political ex- arrayed themselves in sackcloth and perience. The Now Deal, the creed for which the President But, like other Prime Ministers, stands, has just been defented Chancellors and mighty rulers, he and weakened at the elections: was to Ind that revenge would recoll 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 Mordecal who

RECs.

climbed the steps to the gallows.

the

the

From such rich memories as this President

National Socialism.

After six years of office the stands head and

Jews of Germany can draw fresh shoulders above his own party courage. They would not bow before and even above his own politics. There are various explanations

But deep with them still remains

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 is tiring of the Roosevelt to endure until the storm la past and domestic policy it increasingly Quice 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 10 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 Jew Is America is for the President to be found in their history, 'It was the answer which Disraeli gave to because, leading it through the O'Connell: toughest time it can remember, the jeers of Daniel

"I must remind, the honourable mem- he behaved like a leader. I have ber," he said, "that when his ances-Inever been able to improve on tors were savages in an unknown the words a New York taxi- island mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.”

driver uttared at the end-of-an!

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"Please, Mother—I'd rather pay full fare, and koop my

age to myself!”

He wears suits without waist coats, white shirts and Cam- bridge-blue ties. He has a pro- minent square jaw, very good teeth, and a mole over his left eyebrow. He smokes cigarettes in a long amber bolder,

He has all kinds of little man- neriams; 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 "O" Some- times when he does not hear what you sald 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 |thoir Arst names. He likes to pull their legs and they, respect- fully addressing him as Mr. President, make sly cracks back at him. Many of the papermen are violently opposed. to him politically, and he knows it. Nobody has ever seen him. [bored.

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Ho may be, as you are likely to be told in Washington, im pulsive" and erratic, over-con fident sometimes, and some«.. times quite wrong, but as ́a personality he has no match anywhere else in this land. There is something about him. Ás. General Johnson puts it, ho lisan elemental force