MOVEMENT OF REFUGEES
NOT COUNTENANGED BY BRITAIN LONDON, November 6. The Under-Secretary; for Foreign Affairs, Mr H. McNeil, replying in the House of Commons debate on European deportations, declared that Britain had not agreed to countenance the movement,of between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000 refugees from Eastern Germany, as members of the House had asserted. They agreed to accept 1,750,000, but it was impossible to give accurate figures because the movement was so irregular. He added that the Government was not primarily concerned with the Russian Government, but with the Polish, Czecho-Slovakian, and Hungarian Governments. " The Government is in no danger of thinking of the problem as part of a political jigsaw," Mr McNeil continued. "We lack precise information, but have a day-to-day stream of information about the people's misery', suffering, and hopelessness. We will continue to consider these people who are pushed around as human souls."
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Evening Star, Issue 25634, 7 November 1945, Page 5
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