TELEGRAM ALERTS WORLD OF NAZI HOLOCAUST: Seventy years ago the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, Gerhart M. Riegner, sent a telegram to British and American diplomats providing accurate information about Hitler’s plans to annihilate millions of Jews. The cable stated: “Received alarming report about plan being discussed and considered in Führer headquarters to exterminate at one fell swoop all Jews in German-controlled countries comprising three and a half to four million after deportation and concentration in the east thus solving Jewish question once and for all….” The US State Department considered it "a wild rumor, fueled by Jewish anxieties," while the British Foreign Office refused to forward the telegram calling for the allegations to be investigated first. It was only on November 25, 1942 the State Department contacted WJC President Wise, confirming Riegner's report and granting Wise permission to release the news about the Holocaust to the world. It took a further 14 months until, in January 1944, President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board whose aim was to try to save Jews. "Since my first telegram, 18 months had passed during which time the inexorable massacre continued and millions of Jews were sacrificed," Riegner wrote in his memoirs. For the rest of his life, Riegner was haunted by the knowledge that many of the six million Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps could have been saved if the US and Britain had acted promptly on his warning dispatched from Switzerland. (INN) Pray global leaders will not make the same tragic mistake again, rather wake up to the impending Iranian nuclear threat against Israel and the West.