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To: Sam who wrote (203915)	9/21/2006 11:51:43 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 281500

It was Americans the age of her husbands parents who turned away a shipload of jewish Refugees to be returned to Germany for execution. Most north Americans were bigots at the time, Joeseph Kennedy thought Hitler was a great man, so did Lindburg. In Canada they had to enshrine the rights of Catholics in the Law because everyone hated Catholics as well. When John Kennedy became president it was huge, because he was a Roman catholic and no one knew if the Pope was going to run the United States. that is only 40 odd years ago. fyi 18 On May 15, 1939, the luxury ocean liner, S.S. St. Louis, set sail from Hamburg, Germany. On board were 907 Jewish passengers. They had been the upper class of German society prior to being stripped of all their assets by the Nazi government. What they did possess were entry visas to Cuba. The St. Louis sailed to Havana. On reaching their destination, however, they were turned away. The Cuban government refused to recognize the visas. The search for sanctuary began. Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Panama were approached - all turned the ship away. Within two days, all the countries in South America had refused to allow the Jewish passengers of the S.S. St. Louis sanctuary. As the St. Louis made its way north, the United States sent out a gun ship to shadow the cruise ship to ensure that it did not enter American waters. When word reached Prime Minister Mackenzie King of the plight of the S.S. St. Louis, he was in Washington, accompanying the British King and Queen on their American tour. He responded to the plight of the cruise ship saying that he was, "emphatically opposed to the admission of the St. Louis' passengers". Immigration Minister Frederick Blair stated that these refugees did not qualify under immigration laws, and in any case Canada had already done too much for the Jews, "...if these Jews were to find a home (in Canada) they would likely be followed by other shiploads. No country could open its doors wide enough to take in the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere". The S.S. St. Louis ran out of options and made its way back to Europe. The response of the world to the Jews on the St. Louis further justified in Adolph Hitler's mind the 'Final Solution'.