British Embassy representatives conferred informally today with State Department officials on the possibility of bringing evacuated children from France and England to Canada and the United States. Tentative plans centered on bringing the young refugees for the most part to Canada, with the possibility that some might enter the United States under the quota.
The Friends’ Service Committee, headed by Clarence Pickett, had planned to bring at least one shipload of children from Bordeaux, but the Maritime Commission said the State Department had refused permission for any rescue ships to sail for French ports.
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