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them from very high sources - are completely the opposite. I've been here a long time and I know this country.”

I said, “I know you do. You know it much better than I do.”

He said, “I know that there never was a period when there was such unity, such strength, such enormous defenses as they've got now. They can really not be licked.”

Well, I thought he probably was right, although I went on to tell him what I'd seen, where I had been, and so on. I had been down in the South, around Toulon, in the villages, in the valley of the Gironde. However, Bullitt was very sure of himself.

Myron Taylor was also there that summer, They had already begun to have Jewish pogroms in Germany at that time. He went to a meeting at Evian, which is on the French side of Lake Geneva. There was a meeting there to try to make some plan to care for and safeguard the German refugees. There was a great movement in this country, among Jewish people particularly, to lift the immigration barriers and bring the refugees over here. There was equally strong opposition to it from those who didn't like them any better than the Germans liked them. Anyhow, the President had appointed Myron Taylor to be on this committee. I have yet to discuss Myron Taylor's





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