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encased in a tight-fitting glove of quotas and visas and affidavits, and a thick layer of
prejudice.” Immigration quotas could have been suspended for the duration of the Hitler
regime. Enough funds could have been raised to provide for the destitute refugee carried
by foreign ships to distant shores. The solemn “resolutions” of the Evian Conference
could have become a “reality instead of a hollow gesture.” International accords could
have been reached enabling the absorption of forced émigrés based on the respective
“size and wealth” of recipient nations. If the United States had shown the way then it
was highly likely that “no nation would have refused its cooperation. But nothing was
done…” 162
162 Freda Kirchey, “While the Jews Die,” The Nation, March 13, 1943, 366-367.
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