Michael Straight, son of a prominent New
York banker, speechwriter for FDR, and a
communist spy.
Let me welcome you to a good world! Good not because all is nice and lovely in it. Far from it. But good because there never was a better chance to help make it nicer and lovelier . . .
- Felix Frankfurter, Jew, Bolshevik apologist, Zionist, future member of the Supreme Court, and family friend, writing to Michael's parents to congratulate him on his birth in 1916
In April 1941, the 24 year old communist
spy wrote in the New
Republic (a magazine
his
family owned), about the Germans killing
the elderly and incurable in gas
chambers: