A plea to America to use its mercantile marine to evacuate German refugees still in France was voiced today at the annual session of the Council of the League of Nations Union.
The appeal was made by Margery Corbett-Ashby, who was among the signers of an appeal on behalf of refugees issued on May 31 by the Archbishop of York, and was coupled with a warning that unless swift action was taken within the next five or six days the fate “of these unhappy refugees” would be sealed. Jews, she said, would be deported to Poland and political refugees would face the firing squad.
Resolutions taking “strong exception” to the British Government’s enactment of the Palestine land sale curbs without previous reference to the League Council and urging modifications of refugee restrictions here, which had been scheduled on the agenda, were withdrawn in order not to detract from the Union’s support of the Government. President Gilbert Murray, however, referred to the Union’s previous resolution on Palestine, declaring that both questions would be considered by the Union’s executive body.
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