page_title: Myron Charles Taylor
section_title: International affairs
hierarchical_section_title: Myron Charles Taylor / Diplomat / International affairs
caption_attribution_description: English: "Myron Taylor addresses the International Conference on Refugees at Evian-les-Bains. James Grover McDonald is seated next to him. On the far right edge of the picture is Robert Thompson Pell, an assistant to Myron Taylor at State. The man looking down, second from left of Taylor, with a dark tie and mustache is Georges Coulon."
context_page_description: Myron Charles Taylor was an American industrialist, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important geopolitical events during and after World War II.
  In addition he was a philanthropist, giving to his alma mater, Cornell University, and a number of other causes.
context_section_description: In July 1938 he represented the U.S. at the Évian Conference, in Évian-les-Bains, France, convened at the initiative of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss the issue of increasing numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution leading up to the onset of World War II. Before German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler turned to mass extermination of Jews by way of The Holocaust, the possibility of having refugees sent to willing countries was posed. Sumner Welles, the U.S. Under Secretary of State had proposed an international conference to address the immigration issue. Going into the conference Roosevelt gave Taylor the instruction: "All you need to do is get these people together." Taylor was appointed chairman, and while he was not able to get concessions on immigration, a proposal to create the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was approved.
caption: Myron Taylor addresses the Évian Conference
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