To Return Hospitality Of Overseas Benefactors
LONDON, February 18.
The Kinsmen Trust, which is to provide scholarships and grants in Britain for children from the United States and the Dominions, was inaugurated in London yesterday, says the British Official Wireless. Preference will be given to relatives and friends of those who have afforded hospitality and rendered services to British children.
The Dominions Under-Secretary (Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare) said some 6000 children had been evacuated privately or officially to Canada and nearly 5000 to the United States. The parents felt they were in the debt of the North American Continent. A great number of these had resources barely adequate for their own needs, but there were a large number able and anxious to show gratitude in practical form and would welcome the establishment of the Kinsmen Trust to return to the children of North America the generous hospitality extended to children from the United Kingdom. '
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Northern Advocate, 19 February 1942, Page 3
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