With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. ... It was in this context that the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. ... The U.S. government had successfully maintained a policy of restrictionism and isolationism. ... Scholars on the subject have questioned when exactly, the Western world knew about the at...

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