"CHILDREN WELCOME."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 162, 10 July 1940, Page 8

"CHILDREN WELCOME."

U.S. Attitude Towards War Problem. SHIPPING SPACE LIMITED. (Received noon.) • WASHINGTON, July A. president Roosevelt's secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, "emphatically" denied reports of delays in issuing visas foi English children, and pointed out that the present quota would permit the entry of (>3OO children each month. Nothing like that number was at present arriving. Therefore the Government was not contemplating relaxing the quota. • "The children arc welcome," lie said."Wo realise that time is the essence. _ If a bottle-neck exists, it is the shipping facilities. It seems that Britain is sending what shipping is coming in this direction to Canada with enemy aliens. Mr. Early, who also made the statement on behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, said: "In case any misunderstanding lias arisen from my statement (on America's view of territorial problems in the world), due to my oversight, I wish to say lintended to convoy that conditions in Europe and Asia would be more to our liking if minor nations were given a voice in the conduct of their affairs. "I did not intend to detract from Mr. Cordell Hull's explanation of the differences between the American and Japanese Monroe Doctrines. I did not mean to convey that the United States had'given Germany and Japan a freo hand in their respective continents."