In 1919, the King-Crane Commission on the defunct Ottoman Empire issued a report one historian called ‘one of the great suppressed documents of the peacemaking era.’
admirable things in his life, sympathy for Jews was not among them. Here’s a letter he wrote to FDR after Hitler’s ascension to power:
The Jews, after winning the war, galloping along at a swift pace, getting Russia, England and Palestine, being caught in the act of trying to seize Germany, too, and meeting their first real rebuff, have gone plumb crazy and are deluging the world—particularly easy America—with anti-German propaganda. I strongly advise you to resist every social invitation.
While Crane may have done many
admirable things in his life, sympathy for Jews was not among them. Here’s a letter he wrote to FDR after Hitler’s ascension to power:
The Jews, after winning the war, galloping along at a swift pace, getting Russia, England and Palestine, being caught in the act of trying to seize Germany, too, and meeting their first real rebuff, have gone plumb crazy and are deluging the world—particularly easy America—with anti-German propaganda. I strongly advise you to resist every social invitation.