BUSY IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4

BUSY IN BRITAIN

EXILED VICTIMS OF NAZIS. VALUABLE EXTENSIONS OF WAR INDUSTRY. Nearly 30.000 British work people are now on war production in the 300 factories set up in Britain by refugees from Nazi persecution. They are helping to defeat their former oppressors by making glycerine for explosives, textile and leather service equipment, optical glass for binoculars and periscopes, diamond cutting tools, electrical equipment, metal alloys, plywood, and many other manufactures directly used in the war effort. Over one hundred industries entirely new to Britain, have been established there by refugees since Hitler came to power, and valuable processes recorded only in the minds of the inventors are at the same time Germany’s loss and the Allies'gain. Manv of the refugees came over with little but their ideas and designs, all their equipment and most of their capital having been abandoned. But m these cases the United Kingdom Government, true to a tradition which dates back to the Flemish weavers of the 14th century, have not only given the exiles asylum, but assisted .hem with capital, equipment and premises. Nearly one-third, of the new venlures, with a joint capital of £500,900 to £750.000, are on Government trading estates in South Wales, Tyneside and elsewhere, while others are in the industrial centres of London, Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and Scotland.