NEEDS OF REFUGEES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5

NEEDS OF REFUGEES

4 MEASURES OF HELP IN UNITED STATES URGENCY OF THE PROBLEM EMPHASISED. HOPES OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, November 19. President Roosevelt declined to comment on Dr Dieckhoff’s recall, but announced that he is recommending Congress to study the feasibility of permitting 15,000 German and Austrian refugees, who are at present in U.S.A, on visitors’ permits, to remain indefinitely. He added that if Congress did not act they would be permitted to remain. Meanwhile President Roosevelt has ordered Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labour, to grant six months’ extensions to holders of visitors’ visas. The President commented that he could not in decency and humanity put visitors on ships which were to take them back to concentration camps and persecution. The Secretary of States, Mr Cordell Hull, announced that Mr Taylor, United States of America delegate to the Evian refugees conference, is going to London to renew his efforts to aid refugees from Germany. “Developments of the last few days in Germany,” he said, “have redoubled the urgency of finding new homes for hundreds of thousands of persons. “I am confident that these latest developments have brought home to those in authority in many other Governments a vivid realisation of the need for finding a solution of this problem.” ACTION BY BELGIUM. FRONTIER OPENED FOR FOUR DAYS. LONDON, November 19. The Brussels correspondent of the “News Chronicle” says that Belgium has opened her frontier for four days from last Saturday for all Jewish refugees. The Minister of Justice, M. Pholien, announced this to a cheering Parliament. Three thousand persons attended an anti-Nazi meeting in Brussels, where an ex-Minister, M. de Laveleye, exclaimed: “Hitler, you’re a coward.” MAYOR OF NEW YORK BLUNT ATTACK ON DICTATORS. MORE DANGEROUS THAN PLAGUE. NEW YORK, November 20. Mr F. La Guardia, mayor of New York, speaking, it is understood, with President Roosevelt’s approval at the Pan-American Municipalities Congress in Fayana, bluntly attacked the dictators' characterising Fascism and Nazism as more dangerous than the bubonic plague. He called on 'he Latin-American nations to resist the blandishments of those “who are only seeking raw materials for armaments” and urged them to join hands with the United States of America in preserving peace in the western hemisphere. Symptomatic of the swelling tide of anti-Nazi public feeling here is the decision of 20,000 New York grocers to close for one hour on Wednesday as a protest against the Jewish persecution. Another sign is the picketing of the German Consulate in New York, which is constantly and heavily guarded. The organisers of the Golden Gate exposition in San Francisco were advised today that Germany had withdrawn her exhibit. The reason was not given. Her 40,000-dollar pavilion is partly constructed and additional naterial is on route from Germany ..board a specially chartered ship.