Sir Herbert Emerison, League Refugee Commissioner and director of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, was today named chairman of the new committee to maintain general oversight of the refugee work in England and to allocate the L27,000 monthly Government grant to voluntary refugee-aid organizations.
Other members of committee included Sir George Martin, of Leeds; Prof. Edith Morley of Reading University; Prof. T.S. Simey of Liverpool University, and four representatives each of the Christian Council for refugees and the Central Council for Jewish Refugees.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sir John Anderson rejected in Commons a suggestion that refugees be forbidden to reside within a few miles of Whitehall. declaring that refugees found genuine by the Aliens Tribunals were regarded as “innocuous.” Sir John said that 25, 100 men and 36,600 women had been exempted from internment and special restrictions. He refused to answer a question suggesting that the tribunals were unduly lenient.
A request by Vernon Bartlett, Independent M.P and a writer on foreign affairs, that the British Government permit freighter somewhere at sea, was turned down by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald.
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