Roosevelt's Quota (Powerlineblog.com)
(John)
I've always wondered why so many liberal Jews are comfortable with racial
quotas, given that historically, quotas have worked against Jews more than any
other group. Roger Simon exposes a shocking instance from World War II.
President Roosevelt, meeting in Casablanca in 1943, suggested a quota system
for Jews in North Africa:
> The number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law,
medicine, etc) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish
population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African
population...The President stated that his plan would further eliminate the
specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews
in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the
population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers,
college professors, etc., in Germany, were Jews.
"Understandable," indeed. Ed Koch notes that the source for the Roosevelt
quote is unimpeachable: "the transcript appears in Foreign Relations of the
United States, a multivolume series of historical documents published by the
U.S. government itself."
Roosevelt's suggestion was never adopted, not because local rulers were
tolerant, but because they preferred the more extreme measure of driving
virtually all Jews ...
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