A Shameful Episode
15 November 2007
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Rafael Medoff makes a good case that Churchill's politics prevented him from saving as many Jewish lives as he would have saved had he not refused to open British-ruled Palestine to Jews seeking escape from Hitler's killers (Letters, November 15). But let's not forget F.D.R.'s unforgivable refusal to admit into the U.S. the 937 Jews trying to escape from Germany in 1939 aboard the ship St. Louis.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University>
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Rafael Medoff makes a good case that Churchill's politics prevented him from saving as many Jewish lives as he would have saved had he not refused to open British-ruled Palestine to Jews seeking escape from Hitler's killers (Letters, November 15). But let's not forget F.D.R.'s unforgivable refusal to admit into the U.S. the 937 Jews trying to escape from Germany in 1939 aboard the ship St. Louis.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University>
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