[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Tunisia 1942: Axis Initiative-Situation 14 February 1943, and Operations Since 1 January
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 13 December 1942-18 February 1943
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[BroJoeK]

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January 9, 1943:

• "The British magazine New Statesman urges that Jewish refugees be allowed at least temporarily into all nations, including 40,000 more into Palestine."

"Meeting in Casablanca, Morocco, over several days in January 1943*, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (left), French General Charles de Gaulle (center), and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) set strategy for the next phases of the war in Europe.
The leaders united in demanding Germany's unconditional surrender as a prerequisite for ending the fighting.
British and American representatives were far less decisive a few months later when they met in Hamilton, Bermuda, to address the refugee crisis.
There, they took no action to rescue Jews."

* January 14 - 24, 1943

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Some people are shocked, shocked to learn that, for example Abraham Lincoln was not as politically correct as his legend suggests.
Well, Casablanca shows that President Roosevelt was also less than politically correct, by today's standards:

"During the Conference, Roosevelt spoke with the French resident general at Rabat, Morocco, about postwar independence and Jewish immigrants in North Africa.
Roosevelt proposed that:
"[t]he number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law, medicine, etc.) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population....
[T]his plan would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over 50 percent of the lawyers, doctors, schoolteachers, college professors, etc., in Germany were Jews."[15][16]"

Yes, Roosevelt's actions regarding Jews can be reasonably defended (see Rosen's Saving the Jews), but there is no pretending FDR was modern-minded politically correct Liberal.

By the way, FDR is just now getting ready for the Casablanca conference, and everything is still hush-hush.
The press especially is not supposed to know about it.
So don't tell anybody!

;-)