“During this period, a new proposal, emanating from Roosevelt, was conveyed to London by his emissary to the Middle East, Colonel Hoskins. Roosevelt advocated that Palestine be turned into a permanent trustee state, administered by a high commissioner responsible to the United Nations, guided by a council representing Jews, Christians, Moslems. JEWISH IMMIGRATION MIGHT CONTINUE, […]
Congressman Emanuel Celler in commenting upon Breckinridge Long’s statement in the House on December 20, 1943, stated: “In the first place these 580,000 refugees were in the main ordinary quota immigrants coming in from all countries. The majority were not Jews. His statement drips with sympathy for the persecuted Jews, but the tears he sheds […]
‘He (e.g. Breckinridge Long) discloses some of the things that happened at the so called Bermuda Conference. He thought he was telling us something heretofore unknown and secret. What happened at the Bermuda Conference could not be kept executive (e.g. under Executive Privilege). All the recommendations and findings of the Bermuda Conference were made known […]
Representative Dickstein stated in the House on December 15: ‘If we consider the fact that the average admission would then be at the rate of less than 50,000 per year, it is clear that the organs of our Government have not done their duty. The existing quotas call for the admission of more than 150,000 […]
The Riegner license was not issued until December 13, 1943. Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/report-on-the-acquiescence-of-fdr-government-in-the-murder-of-the-jews-january-1944
In December 1943 the British government opposed a plan for evacuating Jews from France and Rumania because ‘the Foreign Office are concerned with the difficulties of disposing of any considerable number of Jews should they be rescued from enemy occupied territory… they foresee that it is likely to prove almost if not quite impossible to […]
Before the outcome of the Bermuda Conference, which was held in April 1943, was made public, Senator Langer prophetically stated in an address in the Senate on October 6, 1943: ‘As yet we have had no report from the Bermuda Refugee Conference. With the best good will in the world and with all latitude that […]
“Aware that Treasury’s interest in the Jewish situation went beyond the Riegner license and could lead to a serious American rescue drive, the British Foreign Office had stepped in. THE RESULTING MESSAGE, DESCRIBED BY SECRETARY OF THE U.S. TREASURY ROBERT MORGENTHAU AS ‘A SATANIC COMBINATION OF BRITISH CHILL AND DIPLOMATIC DOUBLE-TALK, COULD AND CORRECT AND […]
One day after this conference, on July 16, 1943, the Treasury Department advised the State Department that it was prepared to issue in this matter. Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/report-on-the-acquiescence-of-fdr-government-in-the-murder-of-the-jews-january-1944
A conference was held with the State Department relating to the Riegner license matter on July 15, 1943. Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/report-on-the-acquiescence-of-fdr-government-in-the-murder-of-the-jews-january-1944