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I will be reading this till the day I die. Can only stomach so much. Then find a kitten sleeping in a sunbeam. Smell fresh mowed grass. The history of man is cruelty. Thank God the future is female.

In suppressing an influx of Jews, Breckenridge Long believed he was protecting the nation against an invasion of radicals and foreign agents. Through the years he persisted in his theories about enemy agents entering as refugees, although the record indicates that only one enemy agent entered the United States in the guise of a refugee. As it happened the man was not Jewish.

Sounds familiar.

Nahum Goldmann the persuasive and tough-minded Zionist, urged the Secretary to grant the refugees Asylum. Secretary Hull refused because they lacked u.s. immigration papers. Goldmann reminded Hull that seven weeks earlier anti-Nazi German sailors had leaped overboard as their ship departed from New York.The Coast Guard had picked up the sailors and and gave asylum on Ellis Island.

Samuel Zygielbojm, Polish Jewish who fought in defense of Warsaw, escaped to England after a spectacular flight across the Third Reich, gives an address on BBC radio broadcast of a first hand account. "For if we do not try to find means of stopping it we shall bear part of the moral responsibility for what is happening."