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4 Office Memorandum ° UNITED STALES GOVERNMENT 7 TO : THE DIRECTCR DATE: April 28, 19h7 FROM: De M Ladd CP ra yf oN & % supyect: JOSEPH po KENNEDY xX xf a ~ ms MVhols Whot reflects that Joseph Patrick Kennedy was born in epease A Boston, Massachusetts, on September 6, 1888. He graduated from the \ ©~=©—-6d Boston Latin School in 1908, got an AcBe from Harvard in 1912, and has received numerous honorary degrees from universities and colleges both - in the United States and Abroad. a: EOu RNS GUE EG RSBEG EGE He was married in 191) to Rose Fitzgerald and they had nine children. . Kennedy was a Bank Examiner for Massachusetts from 1912 to 191k; President of the Columbia Trust Company from 191) to 19173 in the ‘ shipbuilding business 1917-1919 (Bethlehem Steel) and has been in the investment business or in financial endeavors since 1919, He was appointed to e Securittes an in 193be He resigned in 1935. ie wes Chairman Commission in 1937 and was Ambassador to Great Britain from 1937 to 1941, He resigned in November, 1940. He has a Papal decoration, is ¢ trustee of Notre Dame University, is a Catholic and a democrat. His N \ ‘home is North Ocean Boulevard, Paim Beach, Florida. ee There is scant information in the Bureau files on Kennedy. His son, Joseph, Jre, a veteran, is a member of Congress from Massachusetts. Both of Kennedy's sons had good war records but he, himself, although variously mentioned for important war jobs, seems to have been relatively inactive, Since the conclusion of the war, he apparently has devoted hinsel? to businesse o is] ° In June, 1938, Special Agen adv a 7 received very cordial treatment from Ambassador Kennedy in London, while was there visiting Scotland Yard. Kennedy's Anbassadorship to Britain is widely regarded in the United States as demonstrating that Keunedy was an appeaser and believed that Britain would lose the ware His appeasement during this period is thought te be important only as it throws light on his present views about Russia as reported by Lr. Arthur Krock,. Arthur Krock, of the New York Times, writing from Florida described Kennedy as spokesman for a grcup of industrialists and financiers, who believe that Russia should not be opposed at any pointe Al] American energies should be devoted to keeping America prosperous. Thus, when Communism fails in Russia, or more properly in the os of Eurepe, the people ae ee sb AGL OT BOF 4 a “23 —— - wn gg “4