When they asked me, couldn’t you give money out of United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, ‘No!’. And I say again, ‘No!’ In my opinion one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance.

Yitzhak Gruenbaum (Zionist leader) quoted in “Perfidy” by Ben Hecht, 1961 (Gruenbaum was chief of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency)