Lord Winterton, chairman of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, today lashed out at critics of the British Government’s refugee policy, declaring continued support of the principles of Christian civilization was necessary “if we are to justify our existence as a national entity.”
Speaking at Cambridge under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, he declared there was not a “single shred of evidence to show that refugees have injured the interests of British workers.” He voiced the belief that existence of a minority of Englishmen who persisted in regarding people of a different race and religion as always inferior to themselves was a “menace to the future of the Empire.”
Adoption of refugee children by Britons is contrary to British law, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare announced in Commons today, since the Adoption of Children Act of 1926 provides that adoption orders cannot be made in respect to infants who are not British subjects.
Seven German refugee farm workers, most of whom had been released from concentration camps, left London today to start life afresh in Kenya. The men, travelling under the auspices of the Plough Settlement Association, had been in London only a few days. Their ages ranged from 18 to 43. The group was the second to leave for Kenya, the first party of 15 left about a month ago.
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