IMMIGRATION: Little Refugees

> A resolution sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner and Massachusetts' Representative Rogers would lift U. S. immigration quotas to let 20,000 child refugees from Germany (one-sixth of the estimated number who are in "desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted...

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