The Freeland League announced today that its secretary, Dr. Isaac N. Steinberg, is preparing to select and dispatch to the Kimberleys in Australia a commission of experts to study the possibilities of settling refugees there and to draft a colonization plan. The commission will go, the League said, when the approval of the Canberra Government has been obtained. It will include Australian, American and European scientists, according to present plans.
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