James Grover McDonald. our first Ambassador to Israel. went to eternal rest on Saturday. September 26. 1964. Jim McDonalds career in foreign affairs began back in 1919 when he became chairman of the Foreign Policy Association. a position he held until 1933. In that year. he became League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees and made possible the resettlement in new homes of threefourths of the 80.000 refugees from Hitlers Germany. His was a clear voice of warning against Hitler but not many believed him. He foresaw Hitlers plan to exterminate the Jews and exercised Herculean efforts to prevent it.
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