TRANSFER OF REFUGEES
BBITBH GOVERNMENTS ATnTUDX Recd. • pm. London, Nov. 6 The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. McNeil, replying to the debate in the House of Commons on European deportations, declared that Britain had not agreed to countenance the movement of between 4.000,000 and 4,500,000 refugees from Eastern Germany, as members of the House of Commons had asserted. They had agreed to accept-1,750,000, but It was impossible to. give accurate figures, because the movement was co irregular.
He added that the Government was not primarily concerned with the Russian Government, but the Polish, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian Governments.
"The Government is in no danger of thinking the problem as part of a political Jigsaw," he added. "We lack precise information, but have a day-to-day stream of information about the people’s misery, suffering and hopelessness. We will continue to consider these people who are pusned around, as human souls.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 263, 7 November 1945, Page 5
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