One hundred Jewish workers from Germany are rushing repairs on Camp Kitchener, at Richborough, Kent, for its opening next week when the first of an estimated 3,500 refugees arrive to make the camp their temporary abode pending re-emigration to overseas countries. The camp will have its own hospital and cinema and will be governed by a parliament of the occupants. It will cost an estimated $400,000 annually to run and will be financed by the Council for German Jewry. The refugees, who are expected to arrive at the rate of 300 a week, will be given intensive training in farming, engineering, tailoring, cobbling and other trades.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in accepting the resignation of Lord Winterton as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and appointing him Paymaster-General, praised his work as chairman of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, in which post he had indicated his willingness to continue.
Climatic conditions and the land-locked nature of the territory make mass immigration to Africa and other tropical countries impractical, it was declared by Prof. Herbert Frankel, head of the economics department of Witwatersrand University at Johannesburg, in an address at the Anglo-Palestine Club. Prof. Frankel said Palestine was prepared for immigration and, given the same capital expenditures necessary for tropical and sub-tropical countries, much more could be done there.
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