If the American and British Governments “really had their heart in the job” of rescuing the refugees in Nazi Europe, something could have been accomplished by now, the influential Manchester Guardian states today, commenting on the debate in the House of Lords this week on the refugee question.
“If the two governments had their hearts in the job, and if the refugees had been British and American instead of aliens, there could not have been this dreary, discreditable delay,” the editorial says. “It is three months (since the Bermuda Conference met) and still the intergovernmental refugee committee has not met, but let us be grateful since negotiations are ‘progressing favorably.'”
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