NON-ARYAN REFUGEES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 5

NON-ARYAN REFUGEES

NAZI MIGRATION PROPOSALS CONTINUANCE OF TALKS WITH GERMANY. REASONABLE TREATMENT' FOR THOSE ABOUT TO LEAVE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 25. Conversations which recently took Dlace in Berlin between Mr George Rublee, the representative of the International Refugee Committee, and the German officials were referred to in a speech by Earl Winterton, chairman of the refugee committee. Though he was not at liberty to give full details, it could be said that the German statement contemplates an orderly migration spread over five years of 150.000 able-bodied and 500,000 dependent non-Aryans in Germany. The statement, he added, suggested the reasonable treatment of persons awaiting emigration in Germany and an absence of molestation of the old and infirm.

Yesterday the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, told the House of Commons that 4325 male and 3310 female German refugees of more than 18 years of age were admittted to Britain during the five years ended 1938, and that 2058 subsequently left. Between last March and October. 4500 from Germany and Austria were admitted, and 529 had since left. Tn the last four months, ending in February. 5667 from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia arrived, and 566 left. In addition to these, 4404 refugee children from Germany. Austria and Czechoslovakia were admitted.