The Foreign Office today refused to comment on a statement by Lord Pakenham, British Minister for occupied areas, that one ought not to be “sentimental” about the plight of the Exodus Jews.
Millions of persons in Europe are having a worse time than the refugees, Pakenham asserted, following a tour of the Poppendorf and Am Stau camps, where they are housed. He added that “as regards rations, British housewives would be only too pleased to change places with them.
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