SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 67, 16 February 1939, Page 9

SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES.

COMMITTEE AND LEAGUE. CLOSE CO-OPERATION URGED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 14. An official statement issued after itho concluding meetings oi the London session of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees states that the committee authorised Mr G. Rublee to inform the German authorities tha.t it had been using, is using, and will continue to use, its best endeavours to develop an opportunity within the next five years for the permanent settlement of involuntary emigrants from Germany within the limits of the laws and practices of the member Governments.

The committee, moreover, took cognisance of the projected formation of a private international corporation which would serve as an agency for financing emigration from Germany and for maintaining such contact with the German authorities as might be necessary for this purpose. The committee decided to communicate with Sir Herbert Emerson (League of Nations High Commissioner lor Refugees) stressing the advantages which would accrue from closer co-op-eration between the committee and the High Commissioner, and proposing that this co-operation might be made most effective by uniting tlie functions of the Director of the Committee and the High Commissioner in the same person, and maintaining the separate and independent existence of the two organisations. The committee, therefore, in T vited Sir Herbert Emerson to accept the office of director. Mr Robert Pell, the present assistant director, was appointed vicedirector. CHILDREN IN ENGLAND. ACCOMMODATION IN HOMES. Received February 16, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 15. Fifty-four refugee children have arrived from the German-Polish frontier and are being accommodated in homes throughout Britain until they can. emigrate to the Dominions.