engaged in.”
Mr. Jefferis—“You were not running any raw material production?”
Mr. Baruch—“J was interested in concerns— I was interested in the study and production of a great many of these things, because I developed and organized concerns which did it.”
Does he mean that he was interested in concerns at the time of his appointment? This would be an inter¬ esting point to clear up.
Another matter wThich would be not only of inter¬ est, but of great usefulness in explaining the gather¬ ing of a Jewish government around the President dur¬ ing the war, is the question of Bernard M. Baruch's acquaintance with Woodrow Wilson. When did it be¬ gin? What circumstances or what persons brought them together? There are stories, of course, and one of them may be true, but the story ought not to be told unless accompanied by the fullest confirmation. Why should it occur that a Jew should be the one man ready and selected for a position of greatest power during the war?