REFUGEE CHILDREN.
American University Plans To
Take British.
ARRIVALS AT MONTREAL. (Received 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. Mr. F. R. Havenner (Democrat, San Francisco) introduced into the House of Representatives a bill to permit 100,000 British children to enter the United States over th* Quota. Members of the faculties at Cambridge and Harvard have offered their homes for British children. Committees have been formed, and similar arrangements are being made at Yale, which is taking the first children arriving in Canada.
A Montreal message says Mre. Engelbert Dollfuss (widow of the Naziassassinated Chancellor of Austria, Dr. Dollfuss) arrived en route to the United States accompanied by her children Eva, aged 12, and Rudi, nine.
A thousand refugees from the United Kingdom have arrived at Montreal, including 300 children, some of whom are from families of the nobility and others from workers' families.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 7
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