AN ACUTE PROBLEM
SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. October 19, 1.15 P.m.) WASHINGTON, October IS. The International Executive Committee for Refugees, which met at the White House, under the chairmanship nf Lord Winterton, went into recess to-dav until October 26, when it will consider Mr Roosevelt’s suggestions. The concensus of opinion among the Pnmmitee is that the immediate problem of giving refuge to 200,000 can best be handled through individual infiltration under the immigiation quotas, and settlement projects such as those of Dominica and the Philip--11 British and French representatives informed the Committee that their refugees were being placed in war and other industries, and that their removal was not piessing, whereas 60,000 refugees in Switzerland Belgium, and' the Netherlands constitute an acute problem.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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