REFUGEE SCIENTISTS.
Guests at Reception to be Given in London. SCHOLARS FROM EUROPE. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. The Earl Baldwin Fund for refugees now stands at £300,053. A reception is being held at Burlington House on Tuesday in honour of more than 200 refugee scientists and scholars from six different European countries. The guests will be received by Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, Sir Frederic Kenyon, president of the British Academy, and the Archbishop of York.
A cable message says that a committee of Britishers and Americans will arrive at Georgetown, capital of British Guiana, on February 10, in order to investigate the possibility of leasing large areas in that territory for colonisation by European refugees.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 9
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