On April 2, 1944 (another Sunday), Pehle spoke at the Midwest Conference of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee meeting in Chicago. This is just the press release from the speech–the full speech is 14 pages long and I couldn’t get the scans to be large enough for you to read.
It’s a nice speech. He heaps praise on the Joint, describes the origins of the WRB, and is careful to stress the cooperation the WRB receives from Hull and Stettinius. Most of all, Pehle stresses the WRB’s role as a life-saving operation: “The Board is concerned with saving lives, any lives, not the lives of particular people who happen to be the relatives of someone here–whether they have money, or haven’t got money. We are concerned only with saving lives.”
