
July 6, 1938 American Presidents
The Shame of President Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933-1945
The Evian Conference was convened at the initiative of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in July
1938, to discuss the problem of
Jewish refugees from germany. For nine days, from
July 6th to
July 15th, delegates from thirty-two countries met at
Évian-les-Bains,
France. The fact that the conference did not pass a resolution condemning the German treatment of Jews was widely used in
Nazi propaganda. The lack of action further emboldened
Hitler in his assault on European Jewry.
The Australian delegate stated
: “as we have no real racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one.”
The French delegate stated that
France had reached
“the extreme point of saturation as regards admission of refugees.”
Source: The Muslim Brothers and the Palestine Question by Abd Al-Fattah Muhammad El-Awaisi, Tauris Academic Studies, New York, NY, 1998. pp. 56-58