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    "ocrText": "WHITE HOUSE\nMAP ROOM\nfill\nTOP\n16 1945 P\nSeptember\nFROM: THE PRIME MINISTER\nwhich\nTO\n: THE PRESIDENT\nNR : 9\nI am now in a position to give you a considered reply, which 1 am\ntelegraphing in order to save time, to your letter of August 31 enclosing\na copy of Mr. Harrison's report.\nI am sure you will appreciate the very grave difficulties that have\nconfronted our representatives on the Control Commission and from my own\ninvestigation of the matter it is quite clear that they have endeavoured\nto avoid treating people on a racial basis. Had they done this then there\nwould have been violent reactions on the part of other people who had been\nconfined to these concentration camps. One must remember that within these\ncamps were people from almost every race in Europe and there appears to\nhave been very little difference in the amount of torture and treatment\nthey had to undergo. Now, if our officers had placed the Jews in a special\nracial category at the head of the queue, my strong view is that the effect\nof this would have been disastrous for the Jews and therefore their attempt\nto treat them alike was a right one. After all, the situation in Central\nEurope is appalling. The number of displaced persons, refugees from con-\ncentration camps, the violent driving of people from one territóry to an-\nother, is one of the most horrible events in human history. So concerned\nare we about the starvation generally in that area that we have been taking\nsteps to try and prevent epidemics arising and spreading to other countries.\nOn this matter we shall be communicating with the State Department as soon\nDECLASSIFIED\nas possible.\nARCHIVES,AND\nRECOROS\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)\nSERVICE\"\nKOGAN TO GUSTOFSON 1-20-22\nBy NLT-HK NARS Date 7.3.75\nfor\nCOPY NO. /"
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