REFUGEE PROBLEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 9

REFUGEE PROBLEM

THE MAIN HOPE U.S. AND DOMINIONS NEED FOR MIGRATION [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Feb. 3, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 2. The Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K. Allen Bell, in a speech at the Jewish Historical Society, said that the principle hope of Jewish and other refugees lay in America, Australia, and New Zealand. Their difficulties might be overcome if a group of nations would invest in a colonial experiment without expecting financial return for some generation.?. The Dominion Governments would act wisely and nobly if they linked up the migration of refugees with Empire migration. Unless the Australian and New Zealand birth-rate was reversed, the migration of new peoples, including the pick of the German refugees, was the only hope of developing places in which the human race was offered a better life. Refugee Doctors The medical journal Lancet, in a [leader on the problem of refugee doctors, requests medical men to reconsider their ‘ obstructionist policy" and adds —‘‘If we regard medicine as primarily humane we cannot afford race prejudice, which is incompatible with humanity. If we say there is no work in England for immigrant doctors, are we prepared to aver that the population of the country gets all the medical care that is needed? Is it sensible for an empire with huge, unhealthy masses to reject the services of men and women who have had the long and expensive training required for medicine?” JEWISH REFUGEES HELD UP IX VIENNA LEAVING FOR PALESTINE LONDON, Feb. 2. The correspondent o£ The Times in Vienna reports that on the eve ol their departure to Palestine thousand; o£ Jews were prevented from embarking owing to the alleged failure of the German Government to provide foreign exchange. Many whe sold their entire possessions to obtain money for their fares arc now without food or shelter, MR. RUBLEE LEAVES BERLIN Received Feb. 3, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, Feb. 2. The chairman of the Internationa Refugee * Committee. Mr. G. Rublee left for London at the conclusion ol the Jewish conversations. The InterGovernmental Committee will mee‘. or February 13. Dr. Schacht’s original plan for financing the emigration cl Jews by the flotation of a foreign loan has apparently been abandoned.