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FDR: “This government has become so impressed with the urgency of the problem of political refugees that it has inquired of a…”

On the recordMarch 23, 1938
This government has become so impressed with the urgency of the problem of political refugees that it has inquired of a number of Governments in Europe and in this hemisphere whether they would be willing to cooperate in setting up a special committee for the purpose of facilitating the emigration from Austria and presumably from Germany of political refugees.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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State Department Release on Help for German Refugees

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