The possibility of Britain establishing a War Refugee Board, similar to that recently created by President Roosevelt, has been discussed with the Foreign Ministry, it was revealed here today. Prof. Selig Brodestky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, disclosed that a Jewish delegation saw the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs with whom it discussed the matter.
A demand for the creation of a War Refugee Board by the British Government was also voiced here today by two parliamentarians, Eleanor Rathbone and Harold Nicolson. Addressing a press conference called by the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror, they complained that Britain’s efforts in behalf of refugees were legging behind those of the United States and Canada. They urged not only the establishment of an agency similar to the War Refugee Board, but also the appointment of attaches for refugee work to the various British legations in neutral countries.
Prof, Brodetsky also reported that seven Jewish social workers have left for North Africa where they will join three who are en route from Palestine to form a unit of ten which will operate in areas where Jewish residents require relief. One British Jewish relief worker is already in North Africa.
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