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    "ocrText": "-3-\nfind, well over one year after their supposed liberation, that\nthey are no closer to a home than before. We have saved them\nfrom death - but we have not yet given them a chance to live.\nGeneral Joseph T. McNarney and General Mark Clark both\ntold me of the large infiltration of Jews into the American\nZones in Germany and Austria. These Jews are coming from all\nover Europe, looking to America to give them a helping hand.\nWe can not - we must not - let them down.\nAmerica has a grave responsibility to see to it that the\nJews who are in camps in the American Zones in Germany and\nAustria are moved out as quickly as possible. They have no\nties in these countries and no desire to go back to the coun-\ntries in which their families were maimed, tortured and mur-\ndered. We cannot ask that they go back and search through\nthe ashes for some trace of their dear ones. Practically\nall of them want to leave Europe and most of them feel they\ncan only achieve security of body and spirit in Palestine.\nWe cannot, without pangs of conscience and shame, con-\ntinue to ignore these facts. We must not forget that through-\nout the Nazi reign of terror, these people heard brave voices\nof freedom, justice and equality. These voices kept them\nalive and kept them fighting in the ghettos, in the concen-\ntration camps, and in the very shadows of their own graves.\nThose Jews who have survived no longer hear these voices.\nThey have been drowned out by voices denying them the very\nthings which kept them alive.\nUnless something is done at once to bring some hope into\nthe hearts of these people, more and more will die with each\npassing day. It is now over one year since VE day, and many\nJews in Europe die every day of broken spirit as much as bro-\nken body.\nIt is with these considerations in mind, that I have\ncertain concrete suggestions which I would like to give you,\nfor what they may be worth.\n1. Prompt Movement of Jews in Germany and Austria\nWith respect to the Jews in Germany and Austria,\nand particularly the Jews in the American Zones of Germany\nand Austria, it seems to me that the time for inquiries , for\ninvestigations, for commissions, for discussions and diplo-\nmatic maneuvers has past. Elementary human decency and moral-\nity require that these human beings be moved as soon as pos-\nsible, to places where they can live without fear on equal\nfooting with their fellow man. It is essential that some\naction, however small, be taken at once. If we can only break\nthe ice, I am sure we can keep it from freezing over."
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