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Show pGENERAL I'piq HUGH s- 1 JOHNSON Volud ratwa f WNUSwka AMERICAN JEWS Under he headline: "Bache Scoffs at Isolationists," the United Press reports that Mr. Jules Bache, who Is almost our only out-and-out Jewish International banker and Interventionist, In-terventionist, made a speech in Toronto To-ronto in which he said that he had not a "neutral hair on his head" and that the United States should be behind the allies against Germany Ger-many "if for no other reason than that of good business." He idded that the "professional Isolationists were simply after the votes of parents par-ents who do not want their sons to go to war." Well, if I must be called some kind of an "ist," because I want to put American interests first, I suppose sup-pose I am an isolationst But nobody no-body can say that I am after any votes. I never asked for one in my life. I "ain't runnin for nothin' " now. But as between Mr. Bache's argument as a banker that we ought to get Into this war "for good business" busi-ness" and mine that parents ought to want to keep their sons out of tUIUtlilMIMllli WmUJILWIBMW W.W'm''lJJ.MlW'Ji)MI'Plll F AVt 'is m 1 JULES BACHE "Not a neutral neu-tral hair on my head." war, I like mine best. His Is playing play-ing into the hands of Hitler who accuses us of being guided by just such men for just such reasons. Thank God it is not true. The worst current libel on patriotic patriot-ic Americans of Jewish faith is to say that they are "internationalists who seek to involve us in this war." If they have money they are called "Jewish international bankers who got us into the last war and want to get us into this one." That's what Hitler says too. Some of those of whom I have heard this scandal, I happen to know. Invariably, among my acquaintances at least, they are not and never have been international bankers. Not one is an interventionist. Some have rendered ren-dered patriotic and unselfish service serv-ice far beyond anything ever contributed con-tributed by their detractors. I can see why any Jew would hate Hitler above every monster that ever came in the shape of man There never was a deadlier or more cruel, cowardly and unfair enemy of their race. But I can't see why any American Jew would want to mix any part of our destiny in any way with the affairs of European nations. This country offered them and many other races' and creeds the most effective haven of refuge and toleration that has existed on this earth. Such anti-semitism as there is here today is, I think, negligible negli-gible and prevails only among the least informed people in more remote re-mote places, who see so little of Jews in general that they have been unable fairly to examine the substance sub-stance of their prejudice. In these circumstances, it seems to me that intelligent Jewish people should be the very last, in their hearts or in their minds, to seek any European tie-ups with America, either as to military alliances or ideas of government. In my observation, obser-vation, few of the best informed do. ROOSEVELT NOMINATION? Whether he likes it or not, tthe Democrats are almost certain to nominate Mr. Roosevelt. To me, this seems so plain as scarcely to need argument. But since other observers ob-servers have advanced reasons to the contrary, perhaps I had better state mine. The party has no other candidate who could pull so many votes, perhaps per-haps none who has a Chinaman's chance. Mr. Roosevelt has something some-thing considerably more th-m that especially if the Republicans, as now seems probable, repeat all the blunders of 1936. In that event, Mr. Roosevelt is a sure shot, but no other Democrat is. Thus in party strategy, as distinguished from the fourth New Deal strategy, there is just about the only reason politicians politi-cians understand he is, by all odds, I the best bet When we come to the fourth New Deal reasons, apart from party reasons, rea-sons, the case is many times stronger. strong-er. With that influential crew, it is Roosevelt or nothing more than nothing utter and complete oblivion. ob-livion. If Mr. Roosevelt should not be nominated, it is pretty generally conceded that he cannot name a successor from that group, but only from the Democrats. In either that case or the case that Mr. Roosevelt is the nominee and is defeated, that crew is so far out that the art of language hasn't invented a word adequate ad-equate to describe their condition. 1 |