ASYLUM FOR CHILDREN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 5

ASYLUM FOR CHILDREN

AMERICA’S OPEN ARMS AMBASSADORS OF BRITAIN NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The cause of the British Empire can have no more capable and willing ambassadors than the children now arriving to take up their residence with American families for the duration. Twice a week a British vessel arrives bringing a juvenile contingent. American vessels are poised, ready and eager to take part in this historic migration, but plans are indefinite, owing to Germany’s persistent refusal to give an assurance that they will not be interfered with. Be that as it may, they will continue to come in British liners. These children make bright reading in the American newspapers. Everyone in Uncle Sam’s domain is their friend. A million —two millions —of them would be welcomed in cities and towns and rural settlements from Maine to California, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grand. More s o, •because, on arriving, they know something about the New World and its people. They vie with each other in seeking information, and their thirst for knowledge is assuaged by brightly worded little pamphlets issued as they go on board by members of the American committee entrusted with- their -care. They cheer the Statue of Liberty as they come up the harbour; they overwhelm the officers and adult passOgers with their freshness and vivacity.