anian Jewish refugees. It was later discovered that President Roosevelt had no appointments that afternoon (Lichti).
             The United States government even went as far as holding a hoax conference in Bermuda in hopes of quelling the public's outcry for rescue initiatives. During the April 1943 conference, delegates arrived knowing of the atrocities that were occurring in Nazi occupied countries and yet did nothing about it. To make matters worse, these same delegates strove to discredit advocates for rescue of the European Jewry. They claimed that attempted rescues of the refugees would jeopardize national security. Following the conclusion of the Bermuda Conference, the delegates blatantly lied to the concerned United States citizens, saying that matters discussed during the conference were top secret, but in general, the conference had been a success and plans were currently in the works to help aide the Jewish refugees. Richard Law, one of the delegates sent from Britain, commented on how this statement couldn't be any further from the truth. He said,?We said the results of the conferen
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