Remember how I said that a bill had been introduced in the House and in the Senate to establish a government agency to work to rescue victims of Nazi persecution? Well, it was introduced in November 1943, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee held five days of hearings about it.  On the third day, right after Thanksgiving (yes, Congress worked around the holidays back then), Undersecretary of State Breckinridge Long testified in a closed session about the need for such an agency.  He felt his testimony so compelling that surely it would quash any public complains about the work of the State Department on behalf of refugees. But when his testimony was released, Jewish organizations quickly discovered that his statistics for the number of refugees accepted into the United States were way off.  This is a January 18, 1944 news bulletin from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about Long’s claims.  The document is from the World Jewish Congress records.