REFUGEE DOCTORS.
British Medical Men Asked to Drop Obstruction. PLEA OF HUMANITY. (Received p.m.) LONDON, February 2. "The Lancet," iu a leading article on the problem of refugee doctors, requests medical men to reconsider the "obstructionist policy," and adds: "If we regard medicine primarily as humane we cannot afford to race prejudice, which is incompatible with humanity. If we say there is no work in England for immigrant doctors, are Ave prepared that the over-population throughout the country will get all medical care needed? Is* it ,sensible for an. Empire with huge unhealthy masses to reject the services of men and women who have the long and expensive ' training required for medicine?" CHEERS IN COMMONS. "No Racial Classification in Britain." JEWS IN UNITED KINGDOM. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) . RUGBY, February 2.
"11l this country there is no official system of classifying people by race or religion," declared Sir-Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, amid cheers in the House of Commons when asked what proportion of the refugees admitted to the United Kingdom in recent months was Jewish.
Sir Samuel added that the number of refugees from Germany since September- 00-was-aboub 6000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 7
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