Among other things, the Report narrated the State Department’s inaction and in some instances active opposition to the release of funds for the rescue of Jews in Romania and German-occupied France during World War II, and condemned immigration policies that closed American doors to Jewish refugees from countries then engaged in their systematic slaughter.

By late 1942, credible reports of systematized mass murder were reaching the U.S. DuBois, Paul and other junior officers in the Treasury Department were dismayed at the obstructionism by the U.S. government, in particular the high-ranking officers of the State Department, blocking efforts to rescue Jews - particularly the indifference of Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long, whom DeBois described, simply, as "an anti-Semite.

"[6] DuBois and his colleagues began to probe the State Department's tactics for blocking what they saw as the most urgent humanitarian mission of their time.

From mid-July 1943, when the proposal was made and Treasury approved, through December 1943, a combination of the State Department’s bureaucracy and the British Ministry of Economic Warfare interposed various obstacles.

The last sentence was changed to focus on the danger this issue posed to Roosevelt's reputation: "This matter is too big to be covered up for long, and unless you take immediate steps to get to the root of the trouble, the whole story may explode to the discredit of this administration.

[11] On July 9, 1947, US Representative George Anthony Dondero included Dubois when publicly questioning the "fitness" of United States Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for failing to ferret out Communist infiltrators in his department.

[12] Dondero, who also claimed that modern art fostered Communism, decried what he said was Patterson's lack of ability to "fathom the wiles of the international Communist conspiracy."