OUTLET FOR JEW REFUGEES
The difficulties of the situation must, of course, be recognised, says the Spectator, in discussing the problem of .finding a home for the refugee Jews. Wide spaces are not wide habitable spaces. The Dominions are their own masters and must make their own decisions. Australia is receiving Jews in fair numbers, and there should be room for settlement on a reasonable scale in parts of Canada—although it has to be remembered that well-equipped British emigrants have been steadily returning from Canada because they could not make good there. Britain herself should be able to find homes and work for many more than have come in so far, and there is little doubt that she should gain rather than lose economically by that in the end. But here, too, the danger must be recognised of stimulating an anti-semitism which too great an influx, or anything like preferential treatment as compared with our own unemployed might easily stir up.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 8
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