Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch, and Henry Morgenthau pressured the U.S. government regarding the partition of Palestine.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Sources support that Frankfurter lobbied the U.S. president, cabinet and State Department for partition, and that Baruch and Morgenthau were named as Zionist figures urged to press the President on Palestine policy. The evidence is thinner for Baruch and Morgenthau specifically, and Baruch's documented pressure was aimed at France and UN delegations, but no source contradicts the claim.
What we found
Supports. A secondary essay states that Frankfurter, as a sitting justice, lobbied President Truman, cabinet members and the State Department to support partition and recognition of a Jewish state.[2]
Supports. A 1944 State Department memorandum records Weizmann urging that men like Baruch, Secretary Morgenthau, Eugene Meyer and Felix Frankfurter impress upon the President Zionist objectives for Palestine, with partition under consideration at the time.[1]
Supports. A source on the UN partition vote says Bernard Baruch told France it would lose U.S. aid if it voted against partition, showing Baruch pressing governments tied to U.S. policy, though not the U.S. government itself.[3]
Context. Other sources cover Morgenthau's 1917 Ottoman mission with Frankfurter and his later Palestine trip, but do not describe Morgenthau pressuring the U.S. government over partition.[4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, The Far East, Volume Vhistory.state.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2Felix Frankfurter: The Jewish Justice Who Lost Track ...associationforjewishstudies.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Deception, Bribery and Blackmail - How Israel was Bornummid.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Henry Morgenthau Sr. - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruchencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Ambassador Morgenthaucommentary.org · not rated · cited for: context
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