The Archive · 1939

Refugee Children Mr. Hoover Says Influx of

Jews Would Not be Harmful

Washington, Jan. 17.

Mr. Herbert Hoover, former Republican President of the United States, said today that the doors of the United States should be thrown open to admit "our proportionate share of Jewish refugee children from Europe."

His opinion was expressed in a letter written to the Rev, Anson Phelps Stokes, Canon of Washington Cathedral Mr. Hoover denied that such action would "lead to further distress for our unemployed."

Earlier the Solicitor General, Mr. Robert Jackson, had told the National Conference on Palestine that Jews must "turn to the Holy Land for succour because of disturbed econo-mie conditions in other lands"—

United Press,

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