Polish Refugees Have Cost Britain A Lot
Reeeived .Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 9. Sinee 1945 Britain has spent nearly £1000 per man on resettling Poles. A total oi' £110,000,009 has been spent on 11 1,0'! 7 Poles. Last month a total of 11,015 remained in tlxe Polish resettlement corps and a select eoinmittee of the llouse of Cunnnons has advised ihe (iovernnient to wiiul up the corps by the end of September which is earlier than anticipated. The eomniittee reconiniends tliat a great effort should be imule to place every Pole capable of work, in employment by the end of September. It recognises that a small number of elderly and disabled Poles woxild ntill be left and it is proposed that tliese should be transferred to the care of the Xatioixal Assistance Board. Nearly 9000 Poles have been' repatriated and more than 71,000 placed in jobs in Britain. Xearlv 900 have gone into the armed services. The Government is also advised to give one Minister the dutv of supervising all plans of Polish emigration. ReI>atriation has not proved a complete solution "as a eonsequence of politicai evenls in Poland," but emigration is much more promising and the Government is urged to maintain reeently improved faeilities.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1949, Page 5
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