ALIEN REFUGEES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1941, Page 8

ALIEN REFUGEES

CONTRIBUTION TO WAR EFFORT [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, May 18. The contribution made to the war effort by 250,000 adult foreign refugees in Britain was'described by the Bishop of Chichester (Dr. G. K. A. Bell) in a broadcast. “These men and worpen,” Dr. Bell said, “fled 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 ard scores of ways in which the help of these German and Austrian refugees is being given. About 2000 are serving as soldiers in the Pioneer Corps. Women are being welcomed as members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and under 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 farmers are calling on more and more of this refugee labour. There are also doctors, dentists, nurses, and clergy all helping. In addition, we have some 250 picked scholars using their brains fox' the promotion of learning in Britain. There is, besides, a body of artists, musicians, and writers helping to keep , the flame of culture alive.” Dr. Bell added that he would like to see refugee writers and political J workers systematically used to en- . courage opposition in Germany itself, : to show the German people the false- ’ ness of Herr Hitler and to recall them ; to their true spiritual leaders.