What Can Be Done?

The cries from the ghettos of German Europe triphammered on Britain's national conscience. No Briton, secure in his island of freedom, could long forget that the Nazis were still killing and maiming Jews by the thousands. But the Jews needed more than pity.

> Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley announced last week that the Government would allow 29,000 Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian Jews to enter Palestine. His report was received in England with mixed rejoicing and fury. To demands that the quota be enlarged, Stanley replied: "Stability in the Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews for war prisoners through neutral countries. Nearly a quarter-million Britons bought the pamphlet, contributed thousands of pounds for Jewish relief. A deputation including the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Kinsley, leader of British Catholicism, approached Home Secretary Morrison with a plea for 2,000 visas for Jewish children who might have a chance to get out of Europe if they could find a place to go. Morrison's reply: Only those with close relatives in Britain (some 250) could enter. Morrison significantly added: "Granting the others visas would cause anti-Semitism in this country."

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