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The paper discusses the extent to which the leaders of the United States and Canada refused to consider the pleas of Jewish refugees for protection during World War II. The paper portrays the vitriolic anti-Semitism present in both countries but shows how the Canadian leadership was more anti-Semitic than President Roosevelt of the United States. The paper still concludes that both countries failed to respond to the plight of Jewish refugees during World War II.

From the Paper:

"By 1938, few people with more than the most basic awareness of world events could doubt that Adolf Hitler represented a threat to the Jews of Europe. In February of that year, he assumed personal command of the German armed forces (Churchill 261). Days later, he invited Austrian Chancellor von Schuschnigg to Germany, and demanded what amounted to a capitulation of the Austrian government to the Austrian Nazi Party (Churchill, 262-65). It was clear that the Nazis intended to take over Austria, and that the Jewish population of Austria would be subjected to pogroms and expulsion (Gedye "Schuschnigg Visit" 4)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Abella, Irving and Harold Troper. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948. New York: Random House, 1982.
• "Britain Joins U. S. in Aid to Refugees." New York Times 8 Apr. 1938: 10.
• "Canada Would Aid Jews." New York Times. 16 June 1938: 14.
• Churchill, Winston S. The Gathering Storm. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948.
• Divine, Robert. The Reluctant Belligerent. 2d ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979.

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