PLAN TO SETTLE REFUGEES

Southland Times, Issue 23954, 21 October 1939, Page 5

PLAN TO SETTLE REFUGEES

MR ROOSEVELT GIVES CONSIDERATION BIG ENGINEERING SURVEY NECESSARY (Received October 20, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 19. The Washington correspondent of The New York Times states that the refugee statement by the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) indicates that he is giving increasingly serious consideration to a vast plan for the resettlement of millions over the globe. 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 to these lands cannot be sensibly considered until an engineering survey has been made.

Taken alone, this survey is the largest enterprise ever suggested for mankind. The Panama Canal beside it is a small blue-print, and the mapping of America a routine task. One name is invariably suggested as competent for this colossal labour—Mr Herbert Hoover. Beyond his prestige, technical skill and caution is his solitary eminence as a humanitarian organizer of relief. No other has his experience or aptitude for this surpassing task.