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SETTLING REFUGEES ! THOUSANDS IN EUROPE j AID BY IMMIGRATION j AMERICAN CONFERENCE i (Reed. Oct 19, 2.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. I The International Executive Committee for Refugees, which met at White House under the chairmanship of Earl Winterton, went into recess to-day until October 26, when it will consider President Roosevelt’s suggestions to speed up its present task of helping 300,000 homeless refugees by the adoption of the most modern j methods and engineering. The consensus of opinion among the committee is that the immediate I
problem giving refuge to 200,000 can : best be handled through individual | infiltration under immigration quotas, j and by settlement projects such as in | Dominica and the Philippines. The British and French representa- j tives inforrjied the committee that j their refugees were being placed in | war and other industries, and their; removal was not pressing, whereas ] the 60,000 in Switzerland, Belgium and i the Netherlands constituted an acute j problem.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 11
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159ACUTE PROBLEM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 11
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