The Saddest Ship Afloat by Allison Lawlor

Author:Allison Lawlor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nimbus
Published: 2017-12-18T20:49:09+00:00

The Evian Conference

In the United States, President Roosevelt called for global action to confront the German-Jewish refugee problem. A conference was organized and held in Évian-les-Bains, France, in July 1938. Frederick Blair told Prime Minister Mackenzie King that Canada didn’t need to attend. He asserted that since 1930, the percentage of German Jews entering Canada exceeded the American figure by three times per capita. The director had previously said, “Efforts have been made by groups and individuals to get refugees into Canada, but we have fought all along to protect ourselves against the admission of such stateless persons without passports for the reason that coming out of the maelstrom of war, some of them are liable to go on the rocks and when they become public charges, we have to keep them for the balance of their lives.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.