“It is a shameful spectacle,” said Adolf Hitler, “to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.”20 Hitler sneered at Roosevelt’s “so-called conscience,” while in Westminster MPs from all parties spoke earnestly about the need to help the Jews, but Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare warned of “an underlying current of suspicion and anxiety about an alien influx” and advised against mass immigration.21 However, the members, prompted by Labour MPs George Woods and David Grenfell,
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