In the summer of 1938, delegates from thirty-two countries met at the French resort of Evian. Roosevelt sent Myron C. Taylor, a businessman and close friend of Roosevelt's, to represent the US. The Evian conference was to debate the Jewish Question as things worsened in Europe. https://twitter.com/WalidPhares/status/1178094385138999296

During the nine-day meeting, delegate after delegate rose to express sympathy for the refugees. But most countries, including the United States and Britain, offered excuses for not letting in more refugees.

Congress had set up immigration quotas in 1924 that limited the number of immigrants and discriminated against groups considered racially and ethnically undesirable.

Responding to Evian, the German government was able to state with great pleasure how "astounding" it was that foreign countries criticized Germany for their treatment of the Jews, but none of them wanted to open the doors to them when "the opportunity offer[ed]."

An Arab-Palestinian revolt against the British mandate in Palestine in 1936 and continuing Arab unrest, especially regarding the status of Jews in Palestine, leads to a decisive change in British policy in the Middle East. In the White Paper of 1939.

The British government announces its policies on the future status of Palestine. The British reject the establishment of an independent Jewish state and severely restrict future Jewish immigration to Palestine.

What followed was The Wannsee Conference, a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20th, 1942.

The purpose of the conference, called by the director of the Reich Main Security Office SS, Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the Final solution to the Jewish question.

By mid-March, 1939, Britain planned to close the doors of Palestine to all but a small trickle of Jewish immigrants. On March 15, 1939, the Times of London published the British proposals for Palestine, capping Jewish immigration at 15,000 per year for the next 5 years.

The result of the White Paper’s immigration policy was catastrophic: of the 6 million Jews on whose behalf Weizmann had appealed at the London Conference, 5,925,000 were condemned to remain in Europe.

Of the 3.5 million Polish Jews who had begged Chamberlain for help in March 1939, only 75,000 were still alive by early 1945. Regardless of motive or intention, Hitler and Chamberlain seemed to be operating in a tacit alliance to condemn Europe’s six million Jews to death.

Even after WWII had ended and the Zionist leadership was begging the British government to allow 100,000 destitute and still endangered Holocaust survivors (“asylum seekers” in today’s parlance) to immigrate to Palestine.

The New York Times continued urging appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs rather than allowing Europe’s surviving Jews to seek a new life in Palestine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/uncovered-polish-jews-pre-holocaust-plea-to-chamberlain-let-us-into-palestine/