Excerpt: According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used
legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle “hundreds of Jews into
Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false
passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American
countries. Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas.
He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration. Johnson saved
at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more.”
During World War II Johnson joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to
sell $65,000 in war bonds. According to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then
raised a very “substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters
in Palestine.” One source cited by the historian reports that “Novy and
Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy crates labeled ‘Texas
Grapefruit’ – but containing arms – to Jewish underground ‘freedom
fighters’ in Palestine.”
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