American Presidents & Israel: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration

Reference

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography
• U.S. Policy During WWII
• The U.S. Neutrality Acts
• The War Refugee Board
• Roosevelt’s Prewar Attitude Toward Hitler

1935

• FDR Tells Lehman German Jews Applying For Visas Will Get Favorable Treatment (November 13)
• Letter From Lehman to Roosevelt Regarding McDonald Proposal (November 1)
• McDonald Tells Warburg Visa Policy Should Be More Lenient (October 29)
• McDonald Proposes Evacuating 200,000 German Jews (October 10)
• Rep. Hennings Calls on President to Protest Mistreatment of German Jews (October 3)

1937

• Roosevelt Greeting Expesses Support for Jewish Homeland (February 6)

1938

• Roosevelt Statement on Refugees in Palestine (November 23)
• Manufacturer Objects to Attention Given to Jews Over Americans (November 23)
• Roosevelt Mentions Jewish Refugees in Press Conference (November 18)
• FDR Statement On Kristallnacht (November 15)
• FDR Receives Urgent Report On Kristallnacht (November 10)
• Roosevelt Comments on the Jewish Refugees (November 5)
• Roosevelt to Senator Tydings on the Palestine Situation (October 19)

1939

• Roosevelt on Political Refugees (October 17)
• U.S. Ambassador On Meetings In Cuba About the SS St. Louis (June 8)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini (April 14)

1940

• Roosevelt Expresses Concern About Anti-Jewish Feeling in the Church (February 13)

1941

• Roosevelt’s Address to Congress Recognizing War with Germany (December 11)
• Roosevelt Asks Congress to Recognize State of War with Germany and Italy (December 11)
• Roosevelt’s Address to Congress Calling for a Declaration of War Against Japan (December 8)
• Stalin Replies to Roosevelt Letter of October 30, 1941 (November 4)
• Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin (October 30)
• Roosevelt’s “Navy Day Address” on the Attack on the Destroyer Kearney (October 27)
  • The Reich Government’s Reply to Roosevelt’s Navy Day Speech (November 1)
• Roosevelt Protests Execution of Hostages by the Nazis (October 25)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Urging the Arming of Ships Engaged in Foreign Commerce (October 9)
• Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin (October 8)
• Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from Roosevelt and Churchill (August 15)
• Churchill, Roosevelt Announce “The Atlantic Charter” (August 14)
  • Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on “The Atlantic Charter” (August 21)
• Roosevelt Freezes Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States (July 25)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on U.S. Occupation of Iceland (July 7)
• Roosevelt’s Independence Day Broadcast on Isolationism (July 4)
• Joint Statement by Roosevelt and Churchill On War (June 27)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast on Challenges of War (May 27)
• President Roosevelt’s on Policy Toward the French Republic (May 15)
• Message of President Roosevelt to King Peter II of Yugoslavia (April 8)
• President Roosevelt’s Annual Address to Congress - The “Four Freedoms” (January 6)

1942

• Memo to President Roosevelt from Leaders of the American Jewish Community (December 8)
• Representatives of Polish Jewry Urge Roosevelt to Act (December 8, 1942)
• Wise Appeals to Roosevelt to Publicly Acknowledge Final Solution (December 2)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on North African Policy (November 17)
• Roosevelt on Termination of Diplomatic Relations with the Vichy Government (November 9)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Marshal Henri Petain (November 8)
  • Petain’s Reply to Roosevelt’s Note of November 8, 1942
• Roosevelt’s Message to Franco (November 8)
• Roosevelt’s Message to the French People (November 7)
• Roosevelt Announces Opening of Second Front in French North and West Africa (November 7)
• Message from Roosevelt to Mikhail Kalinin, President, Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (November 6)
• Roosevelt Rejects Advice to Condemn Vichy Persecution of Jews (October 21)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to the Nation on War Effort (October 12)
• Ickes Recommends Allowing Jews Into Virgin Islands (October 10)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on War Crimes (October 7)
• Roosevelt Calls for Community Mobilization (October 5)
• Roosevelt Informed State Department Approves Entry of 1,000 Jewish Children (September 11)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to International Student Assembly (September 3)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Punishment of War Crimes (August 21)
• Exchange of Letters Between Churchill and Roosevelt on American Contributions for British Relief (June-July)
• Roosevelt Discusses Second Front with Molotov (June 13)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to the Nation on Rubber (June 12)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Japan’s Use of Poison Gas (June 5)
• Roosevelt Tells Congress U.S. at War With Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania (June 2)
• Roosevelt’s Wartime State of the Union Address (January 6)

1943

• U.S. Learns of Worsening Condition of Jews in France, Including Thousands of Children (December 30)
• The Teheran Conference (December 1)
• Roosevelt Condemns Argentina For Suspending Publication of Jewish Newspapers (October 15)
• Efforts to Save Jewish Children in France (September 21)
• Report on Campaign for the Extermination of French Jews (September 11)
• FDR Agrees to Funds for Jewish Refugees (August 14)
• OSS Reports on Zionist Campaign for a Jewish Army and Statehood (April 19)
• Roosevelt Tells Wise U.S. is Helping Victims of Nazis (March 4, 23)
• Roosevelt on the Casablanca Conference (February 12)
• Ickes Rejects Renewal of Proposal to Allow Jews Into Virgin Islands (January 13)

1944

• FDR Rosh Hashanah Message Mentions Jewish “Tragedy” (August 14)
• McCloy Tells Pehle Bombing Camps  “Impracticable” (July 4)
• Roosevelt Tells Congress of Nazi Determination to Exterminate European Jewry (June 12)
• Roosevelt Tells Congress of Nazi Determination to Exterminate European Jewry (June 12)
• Franklin Roosevelt’s Press Conference on D-Day (June 6)
• Roosevelt On Nazi and Japanese Murderers and Bringing Them to Justice (March 24)
• Morgenthau Tells Roosevelt State Department is Blocking Rescue of Jews (January 16)
• Discussion of State Department Failure to Rescue European Jewry (January 15)
• Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews (January 13)
• U.S. Grants Licenses to World Jewish Congress, Joint Distribution Committee to Aid French Jews (January 3)

1945

• The Potsdam Declaration (August 2)
• White House Announces Death of President Roosevelt (April 12)
• Letter From President Roosevelt to the King of Saudi Arabia Regarding Palestine (April 5)
• Roosevelt’s Report to Congress on the Crimea Conference (March 1)
• Roosevelt Meets King Saud at Bitter Lake (February 14)
• Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 4-11)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the State of the Nation (January 6)