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The Wagner-Rogers Bill

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In early 1939, in response to the Kristallnacht pogrom (November 1938), U.S, Senator Robert Wagner (D-New York) and Representative Edith Rogers (R-Massachusetts) introduced legislation to admit 20,000 German - presumably Jewish - children to the United States, outside the US’ strict immigration quotas. The Wagner-Rogers Bill was supported by a wide range of Americans; clergymen, labor leaders, university presidents, actors, and political figures, including former President Herbert Hoover. In April 1939, a joint Senate-House committee held four days of hearings on the bill. 

Wagner Rogers Bill


March 24, 1939 [Original Article], April 21, 1939 [Congressional Record]
 

Short Answer Question

Based on this document, what was one effort proposed by the U.S. government to address the Jewish refugee crisis?

Sources

76 Cong. Rec 3865 (1939) (Response to the Wagner-Rogers Bill from "The St. Petersburg Evening Independent" republished in "The Congressional Record.").