"[Harry A.] #Slattery served in the #FDR administration as Under Secretary of the Interior (1938-1939) and he later headed the Rural Electrification Administration, but he is arguably best known for a 1939-1940 Department of the Interior report formally titled The Problem of #Alaskan Development but popularly known as the “#SlatteryReport,” which proposed ambitious plans for the economic development of #Alaska, including the controversial suggestion that the territory could be used as a place of refuge and productive resettlement for #European #refugees, most prominently Jews fleeing #Nazi persecution.
Slattery’s administrative record, like that of many career public servants of his era, was primarily #secular and #bureaucratic; he was not known as a leader of #Jewish communal life nor as a voice on #Zionist issues prior to the Slattery Report’s association with his name. Rather, his relevance to Jewish #history flows from the report that took his name..."
https://jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/a-refuge-for-the-jews-in-alaska/2025/12/31/