Home Secretary Herbert Morrison was queried today in Commons as to whether the British Government would revise its rigid visa regulations in view of the situation created by the mass deportation and massacres of Jews in Poland and other Nazi-held European countries. Labor M. P. Eleanor Rathbone asked the Home Secretary whether the government would facilitate the rescue of the few Jews who manage to escape from the German-held countries by extending its “small and rigidly defined visa categories.”
Replying, Morrison stated that Miss Rathbone was under a misapprehension if she believed that alteration of the policy of issuing visas would achieve the purpose she had in mind. Miss Rathbone interjected at this point, declaring that the reply was unsatisfactory and that she proposed to raise the matter again soon.
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