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What the title says. IOTL of course Truman recognized Israel exactly ELEVEN minutes after the state was proclaimed. FDR, OTH, came from an enviroment(the Upper Hudson River valley)where
anti-semitism was all too common. I suspect- though perhaps I am wrong on this- that he was never able to shake off completely this attitude. His dis-inclination to do all he could to help the
Jews of Europe escape the Holocaust does not exactly inspire confidence either.* Then again, El-
eanor would have been a strong- & close @ hand- voice urging him to do so. So what does every-
one think?

*- I know quite well the extent to which FDR did & didn't abandon the Jews during the Holocaust is nowadays a very hotly debated issue, worthy of another thread of its own. I'll just say I think he not only could, but SHOULD, have done more, & leave it @ that.
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