 At this time he also became friendly with Nazi propagandist Ulrich Fleischhauer and was a participant in the latter's "Welt-Dienst/World-Service" anti-Jewish news service.Edmondson believed President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be Jewish and published the flier "Roosevelt's Jewish Ancestry" to make his case.His attacks on Roosevelt during the 1936 election campaign suggested that the President was under the control of Jews such as Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis.