We returned the passenger vessel St. Louis. with its load of 900 Jews back to Bremen and the concentration camps of Europe. We declined to change our immigration laws on Jot. Even then. we declined to take in most of those unfortunate human beings who were clamoring at our consulates for visas. In fact In 1944. only 9 percent of our visa allotment was even used. And. as reads our War Department telegram presently exhibited at Vad Yashem. we even refused to bomb the rail line between Kosice and Presov over which the Nazi victims were transported to Auschwitz. We did all too little 40 years ago.
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