"On the eve of World War II," says the Dec. 7 cover of Parade magazine, "the U.S. government turned away the S.S. St. Louis, a ship carrying 937 men, women, and children fleeing the Nazis." The "U.S. government" here mainly means Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He turned them away. Pleas were made to Roosevelt to save the passengers; he ignored them. And because of it hundreds of people lost their lives in the concentration camps of Europe. Yet FDR is a great president, we are told. You don't often hear liberals accuse him of callousness. They reserve that charge for Ronald...