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1945 August 24, HARRISON MISSION (USA)
Earl Harrison, the Dean of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and a
former U.S. commissioner on immigration, had been sent as a personal envoy
of President Harry S. Truman to inquire into the conditions of the Displace
Persons (DP's), especially the Jews, and issued his report. "Jews are kept
behind barbed wire…in camps, including concentration camps…with no
opportunity…to communicate to the outside world. We appear to be treating
the Jews as the Nazi's…except that we don't exterminate them." He concluded
that "the U.S. should convince the British to open Palestine to refugees."
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