The Jewish Labor Committee today telegraphed an appeal to President Roosevelt and to the War Refugee Board, urging the immediate establishment of “free ports” in this country where refugees from occupied Europe could find a haven for the duration.
“We have learned that the War Refugee Board has under serious consideration a plan to establish ‘free ports’ in the United States, where refugees from Hitlerism can find shelter until they are settled in permanent homes,” the appeal says. “We consider the establishment of ‘free ports,’ which would give innocent victims of the raging holocaust the privilege we now accord Axis prisoners, a most practical and feasible one.
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