JEWISH REFUGEES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 9

JEWISH REFUGEES

WORK OF THE COMMITTEE EMIGRANTS FROM GERMANY SETTLEMENT IN FIVE YEARS ; united Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 14 A communique issued after the concluding meeting in London of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees states that the committee authorised Mr George Rublee to inform the German authorities that, acting independently, it had been and is using and will continue to use, its best endeavours to develop an opportunity withm the next five years for the permanent settlement of involuntary emigrants from Germany within the limits of the laws and practices of the member Governments. The committee, moreover, took cognisance of the projected formation of a private international corporation which would serve as an agency for financing emigration from Germany, and for maintaining such contact with the German authorities as might be necessary for this purpose. It was decided by the committee to communicate with Sir Herbert Emerson, the League of Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees, laying stress on the advantages which would i accrue from closer co-operation between the committee and Die High Commissioner and proposing that this co-operation might he made most effective by uniting the functions of Directors of the Gommitte and High Commissioner in the same person, while maintaining the separate and indepedent existence of the two organisations. The committee invited Sir Herbert to accept the office of Director which Mr Rublee is resigning. Mr Robert Pell, the pi-eseni. assistant Director, was appointed vice-Director.