it is also the possession of scores of Jewish leaders who flitted about from depart¬ ment to department, from field to field, receiving a post-graduate course in the art of autocracy, not to mention other things.
Before Mr. Bernard M. Baruch got through, he was the head and center of a system of control such as the United States Government itself never possessed and never will possess until it changes its character as a free government.
Mr. Jefferis—“In other words, you determined what anybody could have?”
Mr. Baruch—“Exactly; there is no question about that. I assumed that responsibility, sir, and that final determination rested within me”
Mr. Jefferis—“What?” Mr. Baruch—“That final determination, as the President said, rested within me; the deter¬ mination of whether the Army or Navy should have it rested with me; the determination of whether the Railroad Administration could have it, or the Allies, or whether General Allenby should have locomotives, or whether they should be used in Russia, or used in France.”