REFUGEES' WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 7

REFUGEES' WORK

BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT

RUGBY, May 18. The contribution that has been made to the war effort by the 250,000 adult foreign refugees in Britain was described by the Bishop of Chichester in a broadcast. These men and women, the Bishop said, had fled to Britain because they could not tolerate life under the Nazi regime and because they wanted to help England as the only country left in Europe that could lead them back to freedom. "There are scores of ways in which the help of these German and Austrian refugees is being given," he said. "About 2000 are serving as soldiers in the Pioneer Corps, and the women are being welcomed as members of the Auxiliary Transport Service and of the Government training schemes. Men and women are going into factories and are engaged in national training to help the war effort. More than 1000 are employed in agricultural work, where they are doing so well that the farmers are calling for more of this refugee labour. "There are also doctors, dentists, nurses, and clergy, all helping. In addition, we have some 250 picked scholars who are using their brains for the promotion of learning in Britain, and there is, besides, the body of artists, musicians, and writers who are helping to keep the flame of culture alive." The Bishop added that he would like to see the refugee writers and political workers systematically used to encourage opposition in Germany itself, to show the German people the falseness of Hitler, and to recall them to their true spiritual leaders.— 8.0. W.