“The period from 1933 to 1944 had been one of continuous persecution in Europe in which hundreds of thousands of innocent persons had become refugees,” British delegate on the committee Richard Crossman reminded his fellow members. He compared Britain’s admission of two hundred thousand Jewish refugees before and during the war to that of the Americans: In this period of appalling suffering the American [immigration] quota had been so administered as to cut down the number of immigrants….In this period, three hundred sixty-five thousand immigrants
