Thursday,
June 07, 2007
Probe of WWII Internment of Italian
Americans and German Americans, Passes Senate
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
U.S. Senate passed an amendment that would establish
Two commissions: One would would probe the
Internment of German Americans and Italian Americans, and the involuntary
exchange of some of those internees for Americans held by Axis nations.
The Second
would examine the plight of European Jews who
attempted to reach the
The legislation was originally slated to stand alone as the Wartime Treatment
Study Act, but Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is Jewish,,a Republican senator
exercised his right to put an anonymous hold on it.
Ultimately Feingold (D-Wis.), tacked
it on to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, and it passed
Tuesday 67-26.
It
took 50+ years to get the Congress to open up Secret files and admit to
"The Storia Segreta".
It then took a Resolution from Congress and an Apology from President Clinton.
This Legislation will allow a more complete Investigation and Report
Jewish Telegraphic Agency -
June 6, 2007
The U.S. Senate passed an
amendment that would establish a commission to investigate the plight of Jewish
refugees in the
The legislation proposes two commissions: One would examine the plight of
European Jews who attempted to reach the
The legislation was originally slated to stand alone as the Wartime Treatment
Study Act, but a Republican senator exercised his or her right to put an
anonymous hold on it.
Ultimately Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is Jewish,
tacked it on to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, and it passed
Tuesday 67-26. All the votes against were by Republicans; 16 from the party
voted for the amendment.
The amendment does not provide reparations for families of the victims and is ai med only at looking into matters that have never been
formally considered by Congress.
It was sponsored by Feingold, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Joseph
Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Daniel Inouye
(D-Hawaii).
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102282.html
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