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tion end criticism of their government swept our country. When the wer did start, the British wore poorly orgenized for propaganda, and were so scored ebout further bad recetion that they did virtuclly nothing. , Of course, they wonted help, as dees eny nation et wer. Thoy wore smart boccuse they were "cfroid of the cers", end they thoreforo let us alone. Not until efter, by Congressional action in the Lend-Lease act, America of her own otcord committsd herself to large cooperstion in resistence to Hitler did the British risk even telling us with eny frecdom whet they thought. It wes not the British, it wes the Germens ond Itelicns, whe vestly expended the perscnnel of their diplometic, consular and trade egoneies in the U.S., though there wes no trade, no chance of cny, end the whole game obviously was to work en us for Axis purpeses. Only prejudiced blindness to the whole of the record ean attribute to the British mejor responsibility for our crisis. Whet, now, of the Jows? Col, Lindbergh ssid the Jevs of America are en equel one of the sinister trinity, The implicction seems to be thet they must curb themselves or elternetively be curbed wherever the isolstionist con- sider that they heve influence, including "our government". This is ominously elcse te the proseriptive polictes+-exclu- sion cf Jews from public employment--spplied from the first by the Nezis in Germeny, applied since 1939 by fescists in Italy, end boing applied now by the Vichy government of France. In actuclity, tho great Arericen wish in this world situetion, which ig that Hitler shall not win, 4s cbout equslly dominent in all our important groups. In actuslity the recurring cenerds about Jewish @ominango in important ficolds hava been oxpleded egein end egaine-in the press for exsmple, about which I know something. But the unfairness of blenkot accusations agcinst any econ or socinl cr roligious groups pales beside tho denger of it. Partic- ulsrly es to the Jews, Fer the Jews have been Hitlor's secpegoat since ho begen his climb to power. At hone he persceuted them. Abroad he fixod upon thom this seme 1lpbol--"wermonger". Antiesemitism hes been foment2d as a worpon of Nezi conquest, or of scftening prolimi- nary to ecnauest, or of just "dividing" a potontiel resisting notion,