colorado tanker: "There was quite a lot of anti-Semitic sentiment in America back then."
Precisely the reason FDR chose to publicly downplay the "Jewish angle". Americans would unite enthusiastically for a "war against the Nazi Huns," but not for a "war to save the Jews".
11 posted on 01/10/2013 4:06:54 AM PST by BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
