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President Extends U.S. Welcome to Refugees Fleeing All Countries
- Sub-Headline
- Expands Offers of Aid To Austrian Exiles To Include Oppressed In Any Other Nations
- Publication Date
- Friday, March 25, 1938
- Historical Event
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Evian Conference Offers Neither Help, Nor Haven
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- WARM SPRINGS, Ga.—President Roosevelt said today the American proposal to give asylum to political refugees in Germany and Austria also applied to oppressed minorities in Russia, Spain and Italy and any other country abroad.
He added that it was designed to help all groups seeking to get out of troubled lands—Jews, Catholics, and Protestants, that no legislation was required to accomplish the purpose, and that it was in line with domestic policy that goes back to 1789 when the United States held itself out as an asylum for political refugees.
The president nodded in agreement when a reporter asked whether the refugee proposal applied to Italy, Russia, and Spain or any other country.
He said a similar situation arose in 1848 when there ware uprising in Europe against monarchies.
33 nations Invited
As to Secretary of State Hull's proposal inviting nine European and all the American nations to set up a committee to study the present day problem, he said it was designed to get private money to help compresses peoples move to other lands.
In Washington, the State Department said later additional messages from Hull were sent to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa raising the total to 33.
The President said requests for asylum have come not only from Jews, but from Protestants and Catholics and that no more than the present immigration laws of the respective assisting countries allow would be permitted to enter.
As for Austrian and German minorities, he said the American law ...
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