Sunday, March 07, 2010

DEFYING LIB HERO FDR, BINGHAM SAVED JEWS AND FOUGHT NAZIS


AISH:

An American Vice-Consul stationed in Marseilles, France in 1940, Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV defied U.S. policy and issued false life-saving visas for thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis, among them Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and the family of the writer Thomas Mann.

Even after Washington lost patience with him and shuffled him off to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, Bingham continued to annoy his superiors by reporting on the movements of Nazis there. Eventually, he was forced out of the American diplomatic service.

Because he went against U.S. policy, he never received national credit, and because he was a man of action and not of words, his story went with him when he died in 1988. That is until his son, Robert Kim Bingham Sr., 67, discovered some of his father’s documents hidden in the family farmhouse in Salem, Connecticut, and embarked on a journey to bring his father’s heroic story to light.

RTWT.

MORE HERE.

LIKE THE MSM AND THE ACADEMY, THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS STILL DOMINATED BY LEFTIST ANTI-ZIONISTS.

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