Rabbi, Man Wearing Swastika Trade Blows At Airport

The Pittsburgh Channel ^ | 4/19/05

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Thanks for your answer.

I came across this from another thread:

"Unbeknownst to Celler, during the preceding months, senior aides to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. had discovered that State Department officials had been secretly obstructing rescue opportunities and blocking transmission of Holocaust-related information to the United States.

It was the controversy on Capitol Hill that made it possible for Morgenthau to bring his aides' disturbing discovery directly to the president. The Treasury Secretary could point to the protests of Celler and his colleagues, and warn FDR that, as he put it, "you have either got to move very fast, or the Congress of the United States will do it for you." Anxious to avoid an election-year scandal over the refugee issue, Roosevelt heeded Moregenthau's plea and, in January 1944, did what the Congressional resolution sought - he created the War Refugee Board.

During the final fifteen months of the war, the War Refugee Board played a key role in the rescue of some 200,000 Jews and 20,000 non-Jews, in part by facilitating and financing the life-saving work of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest. And that was made possible thanks to the efforts of those activists in the United States, including Congressman Emanuel Celler, who would not be silenced in their campaign for a modern-day Exodus. "


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