REFUGEE PROBLEM
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS SOME MEMBERS CRITICISE . DOMINIONS. TALK OF UNDEVELOPED TRACTS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 5. Several references to the Dominions and the refugee problem were made during a brief debate in the House of Lords initiated by the Earl of Lytton, who said private charity in Britain had raised five millions sterling for refugees and that the Empire should do more. There were many undeveloped tracts in Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia and elsewhere. The Bishop of Chichester commended Australian help and expressed th.a opinion that there was plenty of room in New Zealand also if the imagination of the people there could be roused. The Marquis of Dufferm and Ava, replying, said the- Home Office was ex ■ amining the possibility of keeping some children after eighteen as British citizens. He agreed that refugees were an investment, but said the British Empire could not should the burden alone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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160REFUGEE PROBLEM Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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