HOMES FOR REFUGEES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 5

HOMES FOR REFUGEES

BIG SETTLEMENT SCHEME IN AFRICA CONSIDERED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. MR H. HOOVER SUGGESTED AS ORGANISER. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 19. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent states that president Roosevelt, in his refugees statement, indicates that he is giving increasingly serious consideration to a certain vast and most appealing plan for the resettlement of millions. It is the British Empire, through its wide possessions in Africa, which has been the centre of the gigantic scheme that has been discussed with President Roosevelt, but to send millions of homeless people to these lands cannot be sensibly considered until an engineering survey has been made. Taken alone, this survey is the largest enterprise ever suggested to mankind. The Panama Canal beside it is a small blueprint and the mapping of America a routine task. One name invariably is suggested as competent for this colossal labour, namely, Mr Herbert Hoover. Beyond his prestige, technical skill and caution is his solitary eminence as a humanitarian organiser of relief. None other has his experience and aptitude for this surpassing task. __