Only five per cent of the funds raised thus far has come from non-Jewish sources, although non-Jewish refugees have comprised nearly twenty per cent.
The ranks of the refugees are probably as numerous at the present time as at the beginning of the effort to find new homes for them, the High Commissioner continued, since the exodus from Germany has not ceased.
Mr. McDonald announced that headquarters of the high commission have been transferred to London with the purpose of achieving “better connections with the governments.”
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