<P> After 5 days in the harbor, only 29 passengers were allowed to disembark in Cuba . Twenty - two of them were Jews that had valid US visas; of the others, four were Spanish citizens and two were Cuban nationals, all with valid entry documents . The last was a medical evacuee who, after attempting to commit suicide, was taken to a hospital in Havana . </P> <P> Telephone records show American officials Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury had made some efforts to persuade Cuba to accept the refugees . Their actions, together with efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, were not successful . </P> <P> Prohibited from landing in Cuba, St. Louis and the remaining 907 refugees headed towards the United States . Captain Schröder circled off the coast of Florida, hoping for permission to enter the United States . Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, advised Roosevelt not to accept the Jews, however . Captain Schröder considered running aground along the coast to allow the refugees to escape, but, acting on Cordell Hull's instructions, US Coast Guard vessels shadowed the ship and prevented such a move . </P> <P> After St. Louis was turned away from the United States, a group of academics and clergy in Canada tried to persuade Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to provide sanctuary to the ship's passengers, as it was only two days from Halifax, Nova Scotia . But Canadian immigration official Frederick Blair, hostile to Jewish immigration, persuaded the prime minister on June 9 not to intervene . In 2000, Blair's nephew apologized to the Jewish people for his uncle's action . </P>

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