Patton pleaded with President Roosevelt: I am confident. Mr. President. that if the American people were acquainted with the true facts of Nazi persecution they would cry out with one voice asking that this country point the way in this proposed humanitarian task of providing temporary havens for European refugees. President William Green. of the American Federation of Labor. also pleaded: I urge you. Mr. President. in my own name and in the name of the American Federation of Labor. to cause the creation of free ports in this country for refugee victims of the cruel war. now. before it is too late. Such action on your part will. I believe. clear the way for similar action in other parts of the Allied and neutral world.
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