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*[[Harold Oram]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.</ref> | *[[Harold Oram]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.</ref> | ||
*[[Varian Fry]] - European represenative.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.</ref> | *[[Varian Fry]] - European represenative.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.</ref> | ||
| + | *[[David Seiferheld]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 19:46, 31 January 2012
The Emergency Rescue Committee was formed in 1940 to help political refugees from Nazism who had fled to Vichy France during the German invasion of that country. It was supported by a number of prominent progressives in the United States. It merged into the International Rescue Committee in 1940.[1]
People
- Frank Kingdon - chair.
- Karl Frank[2]
- Joseph Buttinger[3]
- Reinhold Niebuhr[4]
- Harold Oram[5]
- Varian Fry - European represenative.[6]
- David Seiferheld[7]
Notes
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.248.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.243.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.241.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.
