On April 20, 1943, a cable was received from Bern relating to the proposed financial arrangements in connection with the evacuation of the Jews from Rumania and France. Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/report-on-the-acquiescence-of-fdr-government-in-the-murder-of-the-jews-january-1944
On April 10, 1943, Sumner Welles cabled our Legation in Bern and requested them to get in touch with the World Jewish Congress representative in Switzerland, whom Welles had been informed was in possession of important information regarding the situation of the Jews Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
In the midst of months of mass terror against Jews in Rumania, Cavendish W. Cannon of the State Department’s Division of European Affairs spelled out the reasons why the United States should not support a proposal to move 300,000 Jews out of Rumania to safety in Syria or Palestine. He specified, among other problems, that […]
“EVEN IF ONE ACCEPTS EDEN’S CONTENTION THAT TRANSPORTATION WAS NOT AVAILABLE, CAN ANYONE DOUBT THAT JEWS WOULD HAVE WALKED, IF NECESSARY, ACROSS THE BALKANS AND OUT THROUGH TURKEY? The hard fact of the matter is that despite the excuse used constantly throughout World War II that the rescue of Jews was impossible because of the […]
SINCE THE TIME WHEN THIS GOVERNMENT KNEW THAT THE JEWS WERE BEING MURDERED, OUR STATE DEPARTMENT HAS FAILED TO TAKE ANY POSITIVE STEPS REASONABLY CALCULATED TO SAVE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE. ALTHOUGH STATE HAS USED THE DEVICE OF SETTING UP INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TO SURVEY THE WHOLE REFUGEE PROBLEM, AND CALLING CONFERENCES SUCH AS THE BERMUDA […]
“The meeting in Washington with Eden (e.g. Anthony Eden British Foreign Secretary) dealt a crushing blow to the American Jewish leadership, as is reflected in the following description of the reaction of the Joint Emergency Committee when Rabbi Steven Wise and Proskauer reported back to it: “Over the entire meeting hung the pall of Mr. […]
Address to American Arabs – Excerpts from a Radio Speech by Haj Amin al-Husseini, in Rome “The Arabs and Moslems will not be deceived by Britain once again because not only have they known its true intentions but they have also known those of Britain’s allies – America – and I want to draw the […]
On March 13, 1942, a cable was received from the World Jewish Congress representatives in London stating that information reaching London indicated the possibility of rescuing Jews provided that funds were put at the disposal of the World Jewish Congress representation in Switzerland. Source: Zola, Gary Philip & Dollinger, Marc American Jewish History: A Primary […]
The strategy was for Taylor to conduct preliminary discussions with Sumner Welles and other State Department officials. These talks were to be based on the Joint Emergency Committee’s specific rescue proposal, a program that closely followed the eleven-point list that came out of the March 1 Madison Square Garden mass meeting. But the day before […]
Immediately upon the receipt of this message, the Jewish organizations arranged for a public mass meeting in Madison Square Garden in a further effort to obtain effective action. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html