Fr. was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City who was at one time the principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company. A convert from Judaism to Catholicism, Fr. left the Zionist movement, changed his name from the Jewish spelling (Friedman), and broke with organized Jewry after 1945. He spent the remainder of his life and the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the Jewish influence which has enveloped the United States.

Fr. knew what he was talking about because he had - according to his claim -  been an insider at the highest levels of Jewish organizations and Jewish machinations to gain power over the United States. He was personally acquainted with Bernard Baruch, Samuel Untermyer, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, and others. 

In 'The Hidden Tyranny' Fr. explained the American entry into World War I as a Zionist plot against Germany. According to Fr., conspiracy existed among powerful Zionists in the banking and financial elite to undermine Germany during World War I. He alleged that a group of Zionists offered to embroil the United States in World War I on the Allied side in return for British support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. This support was offered in the form of the Balfour Declaration issued by the British Government to the head of the British Jewish Community Lord Rothschild. Fr. also argued that all the newspapers at the time were owned by Jews. According to Fr., the prominent Jewish lawyer Samuel Untermyer visited President Wilson in the White House and threatened him with a breach of promise suit on behalf of the wife of a Princeton professor with whom Wilson had carried on an affair and to whom he offered marriage. Untermeyer's client wanted $40,000, which Wilson did not have. Untermeyer offered to pay his client off if Wilson would allow Untermeyer to dictate the next available Supreme Court nomination, which in the event went to Louis Brandeis.

Fr. continued his political activities until the mid-1970s, when he was well over 85 years old. He died in 1984 at the age of 94.  

Werke von / Works of Fr.: 
* Benjamin Freedman's 1961 speech on Zionism at the Willard Hotel
* Why Congress is Crooked or Crazy or Both 
 
Letzte Änderung / Last update: 04.10.2010 

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