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...diabolical lie!" cried Illinois's Scott Lucas in the Senate. " A damn lie!" growled Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Senator and the Representative, delegates to the recent U.S.-British conference on refugees at Bermuda, were jointly irked by a three-quarter-page ad in the New York Times last week in which the vociferous Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews screamed that TO 5,000,000 JEWS IN THE NAZI DEATHTRAP BERMUDA WAS A "CRUEL MOCKERY...
Postwar planning bogged down, too. Delegates arriving for the International Food Conference at Hot Springs, Va. found the original foggy agenda unchanged. The mere fact that food experts of the United Nations will soon get together now seemed of little consequence. And in Bermuda the International Refugee Conference continued its dutiful discussions in a vacuum...
Last week in Bermuda, three British delegates, three American delegates, and assorted advisers, censors and other assistants held the first of a series of international conferences initiated by President Roosevelt. Subject: refugees, and the plight of oppressed millions who yearn to escape from Nazi Europe. Announced accomplishments: none, as might have been expected of any such conference in wartime. The official explanation (by Richard Kidston Law, Britain's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs...
...anticipate the future. His main object, like any citizen's trying to figure out a household budget, was not to be taken by surprise. Some of the important dates on his calendar of events ahead, ringed in red: > April 19: Anglo-American conference on refugees starts in Bermuda...
Viscount Knollys (pronounced Noles), Governor of Bermuda, was finally voted the exemption which the Assembly had accorded high-ranking military men. He may now drive an automobile...