the inability to secure funds to finance emigration.
A plan to secure a sum of $1,250,000 necessary to finance the settlement of refugees abroad was submitted by the advisory council to the governing body.
High Commissioner McDonald declared that he would shortly go abroad to negotiate directly with several governments for permission to settle a fixed number of refugees in their territory, although “German propaganda throughout the world was making it increasingly difficult to secure the admission of exiles from Germany.”
The matter of settling German refugees is not only a purely German concern and directly affects world economics.
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