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Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Appeal to Truman for Assistance in Entering U.S.

August 11, 1946
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Emphasizing that the American consulate at Shanghai has not processed a single application under the regular quota system, the Council of European Refugee Organizations, representing 15,000 Jewish refugees here, has sent President Truman a cable appealing to him to help refugees who have already obtained affidavits from relatives and friends in America to enter the United States.

Similar pleas were addressed to Sir Herbert Emerson, chairman of the Inter-governmental Refugee Committee, the Jewish Agency and other organizations asking them to aid the Jewish refugees to emigrate from China where they are in a “desperate, untenable situation.”

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