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ПWO hundred and seventy-five total when you consider that there thority" who

Tor the sor Gorman refugees are 9,444 doctors in London on this possible wind who have been wandering the seas years' register and 26,093 in the pulation of 36 'without la, home in the liner St. provinces, excluding another 8,000 this, mark you Louis, have landed in England. in Wales and Scotland. The number more than 10, They will remain for a limited per- of foreign nurses has so far been be made avail iod, while plans are being made restricted to 150 trained nurses,

The main po for their future.

300 probationers and 80 midwives, manner in whi WHERE WILL THEY GOT or colonies car

new peoples Col. Josiah Wedgewood recently mechanisms. complained that "it is made almost tory point the impossible for refugees to get into this country." This is not true. The foregoing figures prove the fallacy stayed in their of his no doubt well-meaning cham- been absorbed

This shipment of the distressed brings the total of Austro-German- Czech refugees who have landed in England since 1933 to about 29,200. But, in addition, many for eigners have been admitted-as visitors, as students, as holders of Ministry of Labour permits (in-

cluding some domestic servants) and it is

no exaggeration to my that 70 per cent. of these are, in strict fact. refugees.

Notwithstanding that

quests have al movement of 2

pionship of the oppressed.

Walloons, the What has happened is that it was enots and son early recognised that no policy tion refugees w of indiscriminate admission for country. Others anyone who claimed circum-

to be a re- They have ret stance, I have it, on the authority With the Government straining able example v fugee could possibly be allowed. ginal homes of of Sir Samuel Hoare himself, the every nerve to reduce unemploy- gian refugees. VIEWS - OPINIONS - IDEAS in

Home Secretary, that "the number LONDON-PARIS-ROME-BERLIN the numbers for whom visas have

of persons admitted is far below viously have been fantastic.

ment, such a procedure would ob-

been authorised" In other words, is serious. But what are 20,000 re- The problem, to our English eyes, MOSCOW-CHUNGKING the authorities have found, time fugees, carefully sifted, compared

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of a million other Aryans and non- Aryans who are the victims of per- TRAINING IN CAMP

secution in Germany to-day? In Now many of these refugees haye plain words we may shortly expect told plainly and specifically that in a million refugees turned loose în

But the tossi course of time they must. emigrate. the world!

wars, upheavals England, with her problem of the

The problem does not stop at grim and blood unemployed, cannot offer a home to that. Poland has 8,000,000 Jews Russian Revolu any who are likely to overcrowd alone and there are close on 2,000,- have very differ her labour market.

000 in Hungary, Rumania, în what The 'wars of the She can offer refuge to some few. was Czechoslovakia and in the numbers of sett who bring capital and will employ Baltic States. Many may expect to built new homes British workmen. She has a limited be squeezed out sooner or later, the only riffe-sh asylum, too, for those who are too Where are they to go?

occasional rattle old to work. In addition, certain re- In the past, in fact for 10 years sub-machine gur ligous societies have 'arranged for up to the war period, America wel- course, realists i the accommodation of large num- comed abous 10,000,000 migrants a who tell you the bers of destitute refugees.'

year. She has now cut that influx grants invented About 1,500 refugees have al- to almost nothing. Some scheme or habit in Chicago ready arrived at the Richborough schemes will have to be found to The fight betw camp-in-Kent, whilst 2,980 young absorb the 3,000,000 ̄ ̄ ̄to ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄5,000,- in Russia in 191 people between the ages of 16 and 000 refugees of all races, religions Russian refugees 35 are undergoing special training and political creeds who will be. They settled in to enable them to emigrate in the wandering on the face of the earth tries, these disin future.

before long.

of Koltchak, Den For the benefit of those cynics TEST OF ABSORPTION

others of that gri emigrate, I would point out that tertained the idea of settling some fought for their who doubt whether they will ever The British Government has en- and loyalist

3,873 refugees re-emigrated from of our own share of these "liabili- Of all the sca this country between March, 1933 ties" in British Guiana, but British Germany took 30 and April 24 this year: 7,170 Guiana is a small colony.

000, France other refugees. are employed in What of Africa? At the present 100,000, China, o domestic service; 2,184 old peo- moment there are not many more 000, the Balkan ple, that is persons of more than than 300,000 Europeans in the and the Baltic S 60 years of age, have been per- whole of colonial, tropical Africa first the Russian mitted to remain here provided from which I exclude South Africa garded by everyo they do not engage in business or and the countries of the Mediter evil. They had r employment.

ranean coast.

wanted them. T As for doctors, I find that more Perhaps the opportunities in Bri- on overtaxed exch than 300 German and Austrian dóc- tish Gulans are greater than was at ed to the anxietie tors have been allowed to settle and first thought. The Foreign Office ernments. practice since 1998-not a very big handbook quotes “a competent au- But what has

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