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Burton L. Stratton will be the new production manager of the University Press effective August 1. Stratton, formerly secretary and production manager of Henry Holt Company, will replace Alfred V. Jules, who held the post here since...
...putting all the emphasis on partition, the U.S. had evaded certain other moral responsibilities, particularly to refugees in Europe. Congressmen had consistently refused to consider the Stratton bill, which would have admitted 400,000 D.P.s to the U.S. For refugee Jews, Zion had been their only hope. To the Arabs it looked as if the U.S. preferred to see the Jews of Europe dumped into Palestine. The New York Times summed up: "A series of moves which has seldom been matched for ineptness...
...What can be said about the refusal of the United States, at a period of peak employment, to open its doors even to the 400,000 carefully screened refugees for whom the Stratton bill would provide, or of our callous refusal to do more for the harried Jews than tell the Arabs and the British that they should immediately make room for them in little Palestine? Who can read the reports of the terms in which organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . turned thumbs down on the Stratton bill without perceiving that something morally precious...
...addition to hearing the reports from the delegates, the chapter placed itself on record as supporting the bill now in Senate Committee to raise subsistance allowances and gave unanimous consent to a resolution in favor of the Stratton bill which would admit 100,000 displaced persons per year for four years...
Other legislation stalled. The Stratton bill to allow admission to the U.S. of 400,000 displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...