In response to reports about GermanyΓÇÖs intentions to implement the "Final Solution" in newly occupied Hungary, an urgent appeal was made to leaders in Western countries to warn Hungary repeatedly not to permit the annihilation of the Jews. The Hungarians should be told emphatically, the appeal stated, that their treatment of the Jews would become a litmus test for peace arrangements after the war. Roosevelt responded affirmatively to the request. In a manifesto released that very day, he not only condemned the Nazis and their accomplices for their despicable crimes in the course of the war, but also warned the Hungarians to refrain from any atrocities against the Jews.
