It is not a WW II newspaper, but an advertising blurb for the diaries of James Forrestal, who was the first Secretary of Defense. Forrestal's suicide led to the publication o his diaries posthumously. The highlighted portion in question deals with the 27 December 1945 entry in which Forrestal played golf with the former US ambassador to the UK, Joseph Kennedy. Forrestal records that Kennedy asserted America and global Jews forced the war onto Britain, noting how FDR tried to stiffen up Chamberlain's resolve in the summer of 1939.

Kennedy's antisemitism is well-known and fairly documented. In private, he often disparaged Jews as money-grubbing and cunning cheapskates. He was also a noted champion of appeasement and as ambassador he pushed to deal with Hitler rather than confront him. This championing of appeasement pretty much ended Kennedy's political career, and this engendered a good deal of bitterness with Kennedy. Although he publicly recanted antisemitism for the sake of his sons' political careers, he was still resentful of the Roosevelt administration and had a tendency to scapegoat the few Jews within the government for his semi-pariah status. Forrestal's diary entry is just another example of Kennedy's unsavory racism that took place behind closed doors.

Such antisemitism was all too routine in American elite circles and social milieus. Forrestal maintained anti-zionist sentiments as well as antisemitic conventions that were normal for a man of his era. Not surprisingly, when two men with these sentiments got together in a social setting, these ideas were exchanged.

As for the idea of "global Jews," there really was no such thing. This was one of the staples of antisemitism in the mid-twentieth century. Yet there was no overall organization of Jews, even on a national level. American Jewry was divided between various factions and rival political organizations and even the Zionist movement was not uncontroversial in Jewish circles. The few Jews within American government often found their religious background a liability as any mistake could be used as evidence of their fealty to Judaism as opposed to their oaths to the constitution.

But more importantly, the person who was forcing war in 1939 was Hitler. No leader in 1939 approached the prospect of war with enthusiasm save the German dictator. This gave him a degree of latitude against rival powers as he could retain initiative in the diplomatic sphere. FDR and Chamberlain certainly played their own role in the march to war, but it was Hitler who drove events forward.