From member Arthur Segal

This interesting information from member Art Segal. Does anyone remember hearing about this??
GOD BLESS THE REPUBLICAN. WHO CLAIMS THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONLY ONES DOING THE RIGHT THING? ITS JUST THAT THE MEDIA DOESN'T REPORT THE GOOD WE DO, NOR THE BAD THEY DO! -Art
Finally Honored-- Bingham (the real Indiana Jones??)

Roosevelt administration and the Jews during WWII
Just a little more evidence of the dastardly behavior of the Democratic Roosevelt administration toward the Jews during WWII -----
A few months ago, the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, under the direction of President G.W. Bush, gave a posthumous award for "constructive dissent" to Hiram (or Harry) Bingham,IV. For over fifty years, the State Department resisted any attempt to honor Bingham.
For them he was an insubordinate member of the US diplomatic service, a dangerous maverick who was eventually demoted. Now, after his death, he has been officially recognized as a hero.
Bingham came from an illustrious family. His father (on whom the fictional character Indiana Jones was based) was the archeologist who unearthed the Inca City of Machu Picchu, Peru in 1911. Harry entered the US diplomatic service and, in 1939, was posted to Marseilles, France as American Vice-consul.
The USA was then neutral and, not wishing to annoy Marshal Petain's puppet Vichy regime, President Roosevelt's government ordered its representatives in Marseilles not to grant visas to any Jews. Bingham found this policy immoral and, risking his career, did all in his power to undermine it.
In defiance of his bosses in Washington, he granted over 2,500 USA visas to Jewish and other refugees, including the artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst and the family of the writer Thomas Mann.
He also sheltered Jews in his Marseilles home, and obtained forged identity papers to help Jews in their dangerous journeys across Europe. He worked with the French underground to smuggle Jews out of France into Franco's Spain or across the Mediterranean and even contributed to their expenses out of his own pocket.
In 1941, Washington lost patience with him. He was sent to Argentina, where later, he continued to annoy his superiors by reporting on the movements of Nazi war criminals.
Eventually, he was forced out of the American diplomatic service completely. Bingham died almost penniless in 1988.
Little was known of his extraordinary activities until his son found some letters in his belongings after his death.
He has now been honored by many groups and organizations including the United Nations and the State of Israel.
Our individual duty is to honor the memory of this brave, righteous and honorable man who, during his lifetime, was never recognized for the moral and courageous man he was.