abba, schwartz, this, article, includes, list, references, related, reading, external, links, sources, remain, unclear, because, lacks, inline, citations, please, help, improve, this, article, introducing, more, precise, citations, january, 2021, learn, when, . This article includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations January 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Abba Philip Schwartz April 17 1916 September 13 1989 was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs from 1962 to 1966 Abba P Schwartz and Col William G Brey in 1947Biography editAbba P Schwartz was born in Baltimore on April 17 1916 He was educated at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University receiving a B S in Foreign Service in 1936 He then attended Harvard Law School receiving an LL B in 1939 After law school Schwartz established a law practice in Washington D C In the wake of the U S entry into World War II in 1942 he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marines Cadet Corps As part of the merchant marine he participated in operations ferrying supplies to the Soviet Union at Murmansk In 1944 he became a lieutenant in the United States Navy He was discharged from the Navy in 1946 Schwartz then took a job with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees in London In 1947 he joined the United Nations International Refugee Organization in Geneva serving as reparations director In 1949 Schwartz returned to the private practice of law in Washington D C From 1949 to 1962 he was also special legal counsel for the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration During the 1950s he became a close political associate of Sen John F Kennedy D MA and his brother Robert F Kennedy He also became a trusted adviser of Eleanor Roosevelt When John F Kennedy became President of the United States he named Schwartz Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs in 1962 after Senate confirmation Schwartz held this office from October 5 1962 until March 6 1966 During his time as Assistant Secretary Schwartz encouraged Robert F Kennedy now United States Attorney General to exercise the discretion granted to the Attorney General by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to allow East European refugees and visitors to come to the United States even if they held suspect political views that would otherwise disqualify them He also negotiated a deal with Cuba that allowed thousands of Cubans to come to the United States as refugees Schwartz resigned from office abruptly in 1966 amid rumors that he had been hounded out of the United States Department of State by conservatives who disliked his liberal approach to admission of foreign nationals to the U S After leaving the State Department Schwartz returned to the private practice of law again In 1967 United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara named Schwartz his special assistant for prisoners of war in Vietnam As such during the Vietnam War he promoted programs to help refugees in South Vietnam and to repatriate prisoners taken by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Schwartz authored a book entitled The Open Society that was published by William Morrow and Company in 1968 In it he argued for more liberal U S immigration policies Schwartz died of a heart attack on September 13 1989 References editGlenn Fowler Abba Schwartz Refugee Expert Dies at Age 73 New York Times Sept 15 1989 Schwarz s Papers at the John F Kennedy LibraryGovernment officesPreceded byJohn W Hanes Jr Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular AffairsOctober 5 1962 March 6 1966 Succeeded byBarbara M Watson Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abba P Schwartz amp oldid 1023326417, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
