fdr wanted jews ‘spread thin’ and kept out of u.s., documents reveal

FrontPage Magazine ^ | MAY 2, 2018 | DANIEL J. ROTH

[SJackson]

New documents revealed by the FDR library shows the president's secret plans to resettle Jews out of Europe.

NEW YORK - New evidence suggests that as the Jews of Europe were being slaughtered across continent during the Holocaust, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not want them seeking refuge on American shores.

Tucked away in a secret vault inside the White House during his 12 year tenure as commander-in-chief, the newly revealed documents recently made public via the FDR Library paint a portrait of the President’s plan to ‘spread thin all over the world’ the remains of European Jewry. 

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Among the files in Roosevelt’s safe was evidence of a secret initiative dubbed the “M Project,” a study he commissioned that outlined options for post-war migration of the millions of Europeans, especially Jews, expected to be displaced by the war, according to Tablet Magazine.

The project was first proposed in the summer of 1942, with Roosevelt enlisting the assistance of former diplomat and writer John Franklin Carter, who ran an informal secret intelligence service for the President, along with Carter’s colleague Henry Field.

“I know that you and Henry Field can carry out this project unofficially, exploratorially, ethnologically, racially, admixturally, miscegenationally, confidentially and, above all, budgetarily,” FDR wrote to Carter in a secret memo authorizing the plan in July 1942.

 “Any person connected herewith whose name appears in the public print will suffer guillotinally,” the memo added.

The White House plan called for Carter and Field, a trained anthropologist, to seek the assistants of academics and geographers to survey “the vacant places of the earth suitable for post-war settlement,” specifically in Africa and South America, and the “type of people who could live in those places.”

Roosevelt’s initial choice to lead the clandestine resettlement plan was the curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Aleš Hrdlička.

A prominent public intellectual and disciple of the eugenics theory - the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics - Hrdlička was convinced of the superiority of the white race and obsessed with racial identity.

Roosevelt’s relationship with Hrdlička existed years before the presidency, with the two exchanging letters for more than a decade. The documents show Hrdlička’s zeal for theories on racial mixtures and notions of human racial “stock,” ideas that appeared to strike a chord with the President.

Roosevelt asked Carter to reach out to Hrdlička and convince him to lead M Project team that would study the “ethnological problems anticipated in post-war population movements.” Hrdlička would be tasked with finding “agreed opinions as to problems arising out of racial admixtures and to consider the scientific principles involved in the process of miscegenation as contrasted with the opposing policies of so-called ‘racialism.’”

The President outlined a number of questions the study would attempt to answer, such as: “Is the South Italian stock—say, Sicilian—as good as the North Italian stock—say, Milanese—if given equal economic and social opportunity? Thus, in a given case, where 10,000 Italians were to be offer[ed] settlement facilities, what proportion of the 10,000 should be Northern Italians and what Southern Italian?”

Roosevelt “also pointed out… that while most South American countries would be glad to admit Jewish immigration, it was on the condition that the Jewish group were not localized in the cities, they want no ‘Jewish colonies,’ ‘Italian colonies,’ etc.”

Keeping with this theme, the president also tasked the committee with determining how to “resettle the Jews on the land and keep them there.”

Hrdlička ultimately refused to participate in the President’s plan after the White House made clear he would not have absolute control of the project.

The next choice was Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University, geographer and outspoken anti-semite. Upon becoming head of the university during the second World War, Bowman fired a number of prominent professors, believing that“There are already too many Jews at Hopkins.”

He was also quoted as saying “Jews don’t come to Hopkins to make the world better or anything like that. They came for two things: to make money and to marry non-Jewish women.”

He later instituted a quota limiting the number of Jewish students allowed into the school and restricted the number of Jewish students allowed to pursue degrees in the fields of science and math

Experts say Roosevelt was well-aware of Bowman’s prejudices, having started a correspondence with him years earlier. In 1938, Roosevelt asked Bowman undertake a study examining how Jewish Europeans resettling in South America would acclimate to the environment.

“Frankly, what I am rather looking for is the possibility of uninhabited or sparsely inhabited good agricultural lands to which Jewish colonies might be sent,” the President wrote to Bowman. He added that “such colonies need not be large but, in all probability, should be large enough for mutual cooperation and assistance—say fifty to one hundred thousand people in a given area.”

Describing the M Project to UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1943, Roosevelt said the  study is focused on “the problem of working out the best way to settle the Jewish question,” adding that the solution “essentially is to spread the Jews thin all over the world,” rather than allow them amass in large numbers in one specific place. The conversation was recorded in the diary of Vice President Henry Wallace, who was present at the meeting.

The M Project would eventually produce thousands of pages of reports, maps and analysis examining the characteristics of multiple racial and ethnic groups, and theorizing about optimal proportions in which to combine them in their new homelands.

The M Project would finally be scrapped by President Harry Truman, who took over as commander-in-chief after Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Truman saw the study as a colossal waste of money, which was granted $10,000 a month, and ordered the State Department to pull the funding soon after becoming President. 

A previous version of this story erroneously identified the documents to be apart of a physical exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

[Jim Noble]

“Is it any wonder FDR, the “Comander and Chief” of the armed forces NEVER ordered the destruction of the known Nazi extermination camps throughout the entirety of WW2”

Why would he have done that? It would not have furthered any of the war aims of the United States AND it would have used scarce resources and lives.

[Ancesthntr]

“All statues, memorials and shrines to FDR must now be destroyed.”

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I say to take the phucker off of the dime, and replace him with Ronald Reagan. That’ll REALLY make the Left go nuts. After all, he’s been on the dime for the last 72 years...that’s long enough - we used to change our coinage every 25 years or so, and this one is very long in the tooth.

[PIF]

Sounds suspiciously like Obama’s Islamic resettlement plan in the US.

[Rock N Jones]

It will be your head?

[golux]

iCould it be the love of all that “free” government money the democrats hand out?

Jeez. 1) Sure, lots of Jews are Democrats, but not all are. (I'm not.) 2) I never met a Jew on welfare and I bet you haven't, either.

[xkaydet65]

In a conversation with Jim Farley and Bernard Baruch FDR reminded them that Jews and Catholics were in the US as guests and were not a real part of America. He was replying to their worries about the predjudice each group had experienced and were still experiencing especially in the WW2 military. They were told it was best for both groups to accept their place in America.

[WayneS]

True enough. I saw a poll once from 1938 or 39 in which less than 5 or 6% of the population favored increasing immigration quotas to allow refugees from Europe to immigrate to the U.S. And that was for all Europeans, not just Jews.

[wrcase]

The only difference between the East Coast Brahmins and the Klan was social status. They shared similar views.

[married21]

Didn’t know about Truman’s wife. Sort of like Lincoln’s wife and Grant’s wife both being people who would not have been abolitionists.

[SJackson]

Not sure I’d call Lincoln or Grant abolitionists. Grant’s slaves, his wife thru her dad’s inheritance but managed by him got their freedom the end of 65 when the 14th and 15th amendments were ratified. The few who didn’t run off. But different times, I don’t think we should judge based on social mores today.

[Jim Noble]

And get that whoremaster JFK off the 50c and we can go back to using them again.

[logi_cal869]

Can’t recall when or where I read about this story, but it was long ago when I was very young:

“The US could have agreed to allow the passengers of the St. Louis to land and wait in America for their visas to be processed. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who a few years later would use an executive order to round up tens of thousands of Japanese Americans and put them in concentration camps, could have ordered that 900 German Jews be allowed to stay. He did not do so. FDR’s defenders (like his presidential library) stress that he never issued a “specific or official order to turn them away.” But he didn’t have to. His government was doing that for him.”

[xkaydet65]

And the Klan in particular and the South and Southern midwest in general were the backbone of the Dems in the 30s.And in the 20s and 30s Catholics and Jews were as much targets of Klan violence as Blacks.

[SJackson]

Yes. They were going to be landed in Cuba, State pressured Cuba not to allow them to land as they might find their way to the US.

[Ancesthntr]

“And get that whoremaster JFK off the 50c and we can go back to using them again.”

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Yeah, old Ben got screwed because the media types completely romanticized that scumbag. But at least that scumbag was actually pretty pro-American, unlike most Dems today...I don’t even think that JFK would be allowed into the Dem Party these days.

However, the 1/2 Dollar is not going to make it, no matter who is on the front - not until vending machine makers enlarge the slots for them. This is unlikely, especially in the electronic era. I was VERY disappointed to find that casinos have made slots into electronic games (yeah, I’ve been away from them for a while). It is no fun without the clanging of coins and handling them (but that slows down how much you can bet, so the casinos moved away from that in all but a few cases). The coin is pretty much stuck as a commemorative or as a collectors piece, and I think that it’ll be gone altogether within 15 or so years...sad.

[Yaelle]

That was it.

As soon as people think another group of people aren’t people, this kind of thing happens.

[Albion Wilde]

Only Truth will set us Free, but the courts banned Truth by 1970

What decisions or judicial policies specifcally are you referring to re "banning Truth"?

[Just mythoughts]

I was not even born when the ‘democrat’ FDR ran the show...

I really would like an explanation WHY Axelrod and Ram gave Obama their brain power to transform this nation... WHY would either of these two (Soros) included think it was a ‘good’ thing to import middle east Muslims into this country and put them on assistance for life?

By the way I am Christian... there was nothing ‘Christian’ about Hitler ... he was a devil worshiper .... it is a LIE to call Hitler ‘Christian.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MarvinStinson.

That FDR tapped Ales Hrdlicka, and that the latter had racial superiority views, was a little bit surprising to me -- Ales Hrdlicka began his career advocating in favor of PreColumbian contact as the explnation for megalithic structures and large moundbuilding. He then made a strong 180 and is literally the godfather of the isolationist view that prevails today as Clovis-First-and-Only. Isolationism has a political appeal of course, and it could be argued has roots in xenophobia and racial superiority. Columbus, he was the first to come by boat, the ancestors of Precolumbian tribes, they came on foot, and only did it once.

In Hrdlicka's time, the view was that human presence in the Americas was only 3000 years old. That view died hard, but not as hard as Clovis-First-and-Only.