Denying that German refugees were competing with British labor, Earl Winterton said in a speech on the international situation today that the refugees had established factories which were employing at least 15,000 British workers and had introduced designs, inventions and processes of the greatest value to British trade. Earl Winterton is chairman of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee.
In an editorial on a survey of the refugee problem by Sir John Hope Simpson, director of the refugee survey of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, The Times declares that it becomes clearer that the main responsibilities must devolve on other governments if sympathy is to prove practical.
Swift international action, the editorial states, has become indispensable both for the long and short term policy. Illusions that the rescue work can adequately be performed by charity “must perish.” If action is to be commensurate with the undoubted will to help, The Times asserts, a larger view must be taken of the provision of temporary sanctuary here and in other British territories. “The possibilities of permanent settlement,” it concludes, “must be more swiftly and officially explored and all countries must be asked to realize that unless they act swiftly it may be too late.”
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