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
‘Since the entry of the United States into the War there have been no new restrictions placed by the Government of the United States upon the number of aliens of any nationality permitted to proceed to this country under existing laws, except for the more intensive examination of aliens required for security reasons.’ The exception […]
In a cable of January 21, 1943 (# 482) relayed a message from Riegner and Lichteim which Harrison stated was for the information of the Under Secretary of State and was to be transmitted to Rabbi Stephen Wise if the Under Secretary should so determine. This message described a horrible situation concerning the plight of […]
A joint statement of the United States and the European members of the United Nations was issued calling attention to and denouncing the fact that Hitler was carrying into effect his oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
Sufficient evidence had been received, including substantial documentary evidence transmitted though our Legation in Switzerland, to confirm that Hitler had actually adopted and was carrying out his plan to exterminate the Jews. Sumner Welles accordingly authorized the Jewish organizations to make the facts public. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
October 5, 1942, Sumner Welles as Acting Secretary of State (USA) sent a cable (# 2314) for the personal attention of Ambassador Liland Harrison in Bern stating that leaders of the World Jewish Congress had received reports from their representatives in Geneva and London to the effect that many thousands of Jews in Eastern Europe […]
A message from the Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in Switzerland (Riegner), transmitted through the British Foreign Office, reported that Hitler had under consideration a plan to exterminate all Jews in German controlled Europe. Source: Jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Treasrep.html; pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/primary/somereport.html
“Refugee immigration (e.g. into USA) was cut again, to about 25 percent of the relevant quotas. Behind this decline was the ‘relatives rule,’ a State Department regulation stipulating that any applicant with a parent, child, spouse, or sibling remaining in German, Italian, or Russian territory had to pass an extremely strict security test to obtain […]
“Now that Ambassador Lindsay had logged a complaint, however, [e.g. Secretary of State Cordell] Hull had no choice but to call his ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy on the carpet and inquire of him, for the first time, precisely what he had been doing. Kennedy responded without apology that he […]