Addressing a meeting of the Friends’ Refugee Committee, Sir John Hope Simpson appealed today for the raising of an international loan to solve the refugee problem and denounced the “shortsighted, timid” British policy toward refugees.
If there is one thing we want to import, it is brains,” Sir John said, “yet we are insisting on sending them to the United States when they have been here for three months. If this Empire is committed to keeping enormous areas empty as a temptation to potential enemies then we deserve what we get.” Sir John is director of the Refugee Survey of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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