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London, Nov. 17, [HE Cabinet had an 80-minute meeting yesterday, when the Jewish problem was understood to have been considered. No reply has yet been received from the German Government to the strong British protest against the association of the names of British politicians with the murder of Herr Ernst von Rath, The Cabinet may have also considered the feasibility of a parallel approach by Great Britain and America to Berlin regarding the treatment of the Jews in Germany. When Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, and Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, go to Paris next week, the whole course jof events since the Munich Conference, including German attacks lon Jews, will undoubtedly come under consideration, Not prudence, but audacity, was now required to'deal with the refugee problem, according to the Earl -of Selborne, Ina speech at the Church Assembly yesterday. when the situa-lions" of refugee Jewish Christians from Germany was discussed.
Lord Selborne exclaimed that] prejudice the interests of the present population of the land, totalling 390,- 000 and of which several thousands are whites while 40,000 are aborigines and the vest are Negroes and Hindus "surely all the Governments and Parliaments in. the British Empire should do the great thing of suspending immigration laws and also the protracted paraphernalia of Government passports and visas in Berlin fand Vienna."
It they waited for an inter-Governmental plan to be framed, the Jew: would all be dead before it was put into operation, he declared, The Archbishops of Canterbury and. lot York stressed the magnitude of the problem. The Archbishop of Canter. bury hoped that whatever policy was adopted in Palestine, there would be some means of ensuring for the Jows a spot where they were not regarded jus outcasts and aliens.
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