The Franklin D. Roosevelt Award of the newspaper Aufbau, to “the American who has done most for the welfare of new Americans and their integration” today went to Earl G. Harrison, former U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, whose report on the situation of the displaced Jews in Germany resulted in improvement of their status, and Joseph H. Shart, who served as director of the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.
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