In the debate in the House of Lords, Lord PitzAlan quoted the message from Shanghai and said:—"We shall be only too glad to do all we can in the Unfortunate state of affairs in China, and T submit to your Lordships that money is much more requicd at this moment for China than it is for these children here in this country who ought to be cleared out at once."
Lord PitzAlan went on to say that ho could never understand why the Government acquiesced in the eva-nation of the children from Spain England without even consulting Archbishop Hinsley.
Know as a fact," he stated, "that the "Archbishop was. asked. to go lo the Home Office at a time when Sir John Simon was Home Secretary, and that he was simply told there and then that these children were on the high seas. He had not been consulted whether he was willing to do anything for them or not. He was simply told that they were going he landed in this country, and the Government appeared to hin to make proper provision for them.
"he Archbishop protested that did not approve of it but, as the chile dren were going to be landed in this country, he undertook to do all he gould." So he has and so have the Catholic community as a whole in this country done all they could for these particular children."
it. MeGrath's appeal to London was one of many sent out, by him to various parts of the world in an effort to remedy the, present refugee situation in Shanghai.
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