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such an opportunity at Nuremberg in 1935 but instead chose the road of “Force…Might
and…Violence” as the method to reach his goals “which were, I believe, at heart, the
well-being of his fellow-man; not all fellow-men, but those of his own race.” 147
Secretary of State Cordell Hull opposed German participation in the conference
due to his belief that a unified international position and solution was preferable to direct
negotiations with the nation that was primarily responsible for the refugee crisis in the
first place. Portugal was not invited although its African colonies, Angola and
Mozambique, were later regarded as potential sites of resettlement. Ireland sent delegates
although it too was not formally invited. 148 The Soviet Ambassador to the United States,
Alexander Troyanovsky, viewed the conclave suspiciously, as a Western means to
support Trotskyites hostile to the Communist regime. 149 The League of Nations High
Commissioner for German Refugees Sir Neill Malcolm was also in attendance. A variety
of Christian, socialist and liberal humanitarian groups were present along with at least
one hundred journalists and a number of political, scientific and artistic notables such as
Pablo Casals, the Italian historian Ferrero, and the exiled Italian politicians Nenni and
Spora, the chair of the Pan-European Alliance and Count Condenhove-Kalergi. 150
A number of nations were excluded from the meeting and included Poland,
Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Spain. Italy was invited but
147 King Diary, September 15, 1938, in Abella & Troper, None Is Too Many, 36-7.
148 Three Irish delegates attended including Francis Thomas Cremins, the Irish Permanent Delegate to
the League of Nations; Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Justice John Duff and Second Assistant
Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce William Maguire.
149 Feingold, Politics of Rescue, 27.
150 Beit-Zvi, Post-Ugandan Zionism, 146-147.
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