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American Government is Charged with Not Cooperating in Solving Refugee Problem

April 11, 1943
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The United States Government is charged with not cooperating in saving Jews from Nazi Europe in an editorial published today in the New Statesman and Nation, leading liberal weekly.

“It is not clear why we, in England, must wait for American cooperation. desirable though it is,” the article says. “The massacre goes on,” the editorial argues,” and where so little can be done, it could have been expected that the British and American governments would snatch eagerly the few opportunities that present themselves. Instead, the Foreign Office keeps on insisting that this is a matter in which the United Nations must act together, while America has hither-to been uncooperative.”

Pointing out that weak excuses are being offered to justify inaction, the editorial appeals to the British Government not to wait for the outcome of the Bermuda Conference, but to open the doors of England and of Palestine to refugees. The London Daily Express, in an editorial today, similarly emphasizes that the question of how to save Jews from Nazi massacres is an urgent problem to be considered by the British people without delay.

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