REFUGEE PROBLEM
VAST PLAN MOOTED
ROOSEVELT’S INITIATIVE
SETTLEMENT IN AFRICA
HOOVER AS ORGANISER
(Reed. Oct. 20, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 19.
The New York Times Washington correspondent, states that President Roosevelt’s statement on Tuesday regarding the need for speeding up the settlement of refugees indicates that he is giving increasingly serious consideration to a certain vast and most appealing plan for the resettlement of millions of people.
It is the British Empire, through its wide possessions in Africa, which has been the centre of a gigantic scheme that has been discussed with Mr. Roosevelt, but to send millions of homeless lo these lands cannot be sensibly considered until an engineering survey has been made. Taken alone, this survey is the largest enterprise ever suggested to mankind. The Panama Canal beside it is a small blueprint and the mapping of America a routine task. •
One name invariably suggested as competent for this colossal labour is that of Mr. Herbert Hoover. Beyond his prestige, technical skill, and caution, is his solitary eminence as _ a humanitarian organiser of relief. None other has his experience in aptitude for this surpassing task.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 7
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