The New York Daily News today editorially urged passage of the Wagner Rogers refugee children’s bill, declaring that “it is a job making proposal rather than a job taking one.” The paper said “We must make ourselves look the least bit ridiculous, if nothing worse, when we get squeamish about letting in a handful of helpless, innocent child victims of the kind of Old World tyranny that a lot of our ancestors came over here to escape.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
