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Bars to Refugees Called Cruel, Unjust

June 22, 1938
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Commenting editorially on the forthcoming Evian refugee-aid conference, the News-Chronicle declared today that the practice by countries of not admitting refugees because of poverty and incapacity to satisfy immigration regulations, was cruel and unjust and stood as a reproach to a civilization which tolerated it.

Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, Conservative M.P., today requested German Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen to receive a British delegation wishing to protest the anti-Semitic drive in Germany. The request was made in a telegram which said that the delegation would represent all parties in Parliament.

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