- Headline
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Refugee Board Is Appointed
- Sub-Headline
- Rescue of Imperiled Victims of Axis Oppression to Be Attempted
- Publication Date
- Sunday, January 23, 1944
- Historical Event
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President Establishes War Refugee Board
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- AP
- Article Text
- Washington, Jan. 22.— (AP0 President Roosevelt created a war refugee board tonight and directed it to attempt the rescue of "the victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death."
The board consists of the secretaries of state, treasury and war, who are empowered to appoint a full-time executive director to administer the refugee assistance program.
A White House statement said the President's action was designed to bring about immediate rescue from the nazis of "as many as possible of the persecuted minorities of Europe—racial, religious or political—all civilian victims of enemy savagery."
The White House said that Mr. Roosevelt stressed that it was urgent for action to be taken at once "to forestall the plan of the nazis to exterminate all the Jews and other persecuted minorities in Europe."
Decision as to how the goal could be accomplished was left to the board. It could, perhaps, make use of the International Red Cross, neutral diplomatic missions, or even underground movements in occupied lands.
In his executive order setting up the board, Mr. Roosevelt declared it to be "the policy of this government to take all measures within its power to rescue the victims of enemy opperssion[sic] who are in imminent danger of death and otherwise to afford such victims all possible relief and assistance consistent with the successful prosecution of the war."
Mr. Roosevelt stated, the White House said, that he expected to get the cooperation of all the United Nations and other foreign governments in the program. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Carlos G.
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