Summary
U.S. Supreme Court justice and leading Zionist who appears in Perceptions of Palestine pressing the Zionist case on Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 447-453).
Details
- In 1919 Frankfurter wrote to Wilson that the King-Crane Commission’s investigation was causing world Jewry the “deepest disquietude”, prompting a reassuring response from Wilson, who regarded his support for the Balfour Declaration as an unbreakable solemn promise (lines 447-453).
- A protégé of Louis D. Brandeis, Frankfurter was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939; with Rabbi Stephen Wise he used his access to the president to bring Zionist issues to his attention and urge his intercession for the Zionist cause (lines 572-578).
- In July 1942 Roosevelt rejected Frankfurter’s request that he meet David Ben-Gurion, then head of the Jewish Agency, because Roosevelt feared public talk of Palestine would stir anti-British protest among the Arabs (lines 580-588).
Related pages
Perceptions of Palestine, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, King-Crane Commission