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President Roosevelt’s Way Out

President Roosevelt’s Way Out

Dorothy Thompson after a reception with President Roosevelt in front of the White House, May 29, [...]

Preparations and Expectations

Preparations and Expectations

Members of the President’s Advisory Committee on Refugees in front of the White House, April [...]

Conference and Sub-Committees

Conference and Sub-Committees

The Conference
Honorary President: Henry Bérenger (France)
President: Myron C. Taylor (US)
Secretary General: Jean-Louis Paul-Boncour (League of Nations)
Five public meetings
Wednesday, [...]

Efforts on Refugees’ Behalf

Efforts on Refugees’ Behalf

International aid organizations have years of experience assisting refugees or specific refugee groups. Because groups such as the Quakers, which had a Vienna Center, are active on the ground, they have [...]

Export of People and Goods

Export of People and Goods

Hermann Göring (seated 4th from left in white uniform) and Hans Fischböck (7th from left) during consultations on board the Danube steamer Franz Schubert , March 25, [...]

Argentina

Argentina’s history has been shaped by migration. Between 1870 and 1930, some six million Europeans have settled here. Its 1876 immigration law is quite open. Some migrants are recruited in order to create a [...]

Australia

In January 1938 Australia celebrates the 150th anniversary of the landing of the “first fleet,” which brought British convicts to Australia. Since then, people of British and Irish heritage have constituted the vast [...]

Australia

Onlookers watch the reenactment of the landing of the “first fleet” in Farm Cove, January 26, [...]

Australia

Representatives of the aborigines at a protest [...]

Australia

* 26 April 1888 North Melbourne † 13 October 1957 South Yarra
White joins the Australian armed forces in 1911. An aviator, he spends time as a prisoner of war in Ottoman captivity during World War I. His [...]

Australia

Thomas Walter White, [...]

Australia

Earle Page, Australia’s deputy prime minister, to the general secretariat of the International Refugee Conference, July 5, [...]

Australia

Earle Page, Australia’s deputy prime minister, to the general secretariat of the International Refugee Conference, July 5, [...]

Australia

* 8 September 1902 Melbourne † 3 July 1981 East Melbourne
In 1927, after attending the prestigious Scotch College and studying at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, Stirling joins the law firm of the [...]

Brazil

The majority of Brazil’s population in the 19th century is descended from immigrants and people brought there forcibly from Africa, Europe or Asia. After the end of slavery in 1888, the republic promotes immigration [...]

Cuba

President Laredo Brú (left) and Batista (right), chief of the armed forces, December [...]

Haiti

Haitian President Vincent (l.) and US President Roosevelt (2nd from l.), who is supported by his naval attaché Captain Walter N. Vernou, outside the White House, [...]

United States of America

United States of America

* 29 November 1886 Coldwater, OH † 25 September 1964 White Plains, NY
After studying history and political science at Indiana University, James McDonald teaches there and at other universities. Because of [...]

Venezuela

Venezuela is less affected than most Latin American countries by the effects of the global economic crisis that begins in 1929. The massive American investments in Venezuelan oil production under the repressive regime [...]