WORK FOR REFUGEES
STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DIRECTOR’S DIFFICULTIES. LITTLE HOPE OF ORDERLY EMIGRATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 7. An answer in the House of Commons referring to the work of the intergovernmental committee on refugees from Germany stated that the executive authority of the committee was Mr George Rublee, assisted by a small staff.
The Director’s task was, first to undertake negotiations to improve the present conditions of the exodus of refugees and to' establish a system orderly emigration properly organised, and, second, to approach the Governments of the countries represented on the committee which had expressed themselves able and willing to admit refugees to develop opportunities for permanent settlement, The Director had found it difficult to make much progress with the first part, but he had been able to do much useful work in connection with the second part of his duties. ‘
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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147WORK FOR REFUGEES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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