In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Representatives from 32 countries met for nine days, trying to come to grips with a humanitarian calamity. At the end, only the Dominican Republic agreed to admit additional Jewish refugees, and Hitler, observing matters from Berlin, concluded that the world would permit him to do with the Jews as he wished. He murdered 6 million of them.The Evian conference is not much mentioned anymore -- although it should...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/29/the_high_toll_of_apathy_109370.html
Lamar Alexander Lindsey Graham Lisa Murkowski Maria Cantwell Mark Begich
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