More than 20,000 refugees from Germany already have found permanent homes in other countries, according to a report from Refugee High Commissioner McDonald to the United Jewish Appeal, in which he states that Palestine is the principal country of their settlement. Apart from the thousands who made their way there directly, Commissioner McDonald reports about 100 a month are being assisted to migrate to Palestine from the countries of refuge.
A survey of the whole refugee situation, made by a special committee of the Refugee High Commission, the report states, discloses that of those dependent on relief organization abroad, about 4,500 are fitted for immediate immigration to various overseas countries. The cost of transporting and maintaining them until they could be absorbed in the economic life of their new countries, Mr. McDonald’s report states, would be about £225,000.
“That capital sum,” he says, “would give the Refugee Commission the means of liquidating the bulk of the present emigration problem. Meantime, however, the aid committees in nearly all of the countries bordering on Germany are sorely pressed for funds to enable them to do their absolutely essential work of relief. This must be continued until those refugees who are not absorbed in the countries where they are can be emigrated.”
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