The Archive · 1938

Britain Will Aid Refugees

Commons Unanimously Pass Labour Resolution Condemning Bad Treatment of Minorities.

House of Commons today London, Nov. 22. carried unanimously a resolution moved by Mr. Noel Baker, Labour member for Derby, noting with concern the deplorable treatment of certain racial, religious land political minorities in Euroj po, and: requesting an immediate and concerted effort among nati ions, including the United States, to secure a common policy to deal with refugees, The action of the House followed'a speech by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, in which he emphasized that Great Britain was prepared to do her utmost to assist refugees, Among other things, ko said, Britain would accept large numbers of refugee children, and also other immigrants, for intensive training for them to go to less populated countries, including the British Empire, In moving his resolution Mr. Baker made an outspoken attack against the anti-Jewish policy of the German Government. He recited a list of revolting details and anti-Semitic in-eidents in Germany which, he assert ed, he could guarantee were true.

He declared that all the attacks he cited were organized in advance and claimed the events were not the spontaneous indignation of the people but the consummation, or perhaps the ultimate stage, of a long-term plan, whose spirit and purpose were plain.

Mr, Baker said the long drastic measures against Jows were not now supported by the German people, while it was no crime of disloyalty or treason which brought this fate Jon the Jews, who had shown a self-restraint in Germany as in Palestine which was almost super-human, Referring to an article published in a German newspaper on Novem ber 3 stating that "out of the hoarded wealth of the Jews we must compensate ourselves for the economic damage done us by the world of Jewry," Mr. Baker, said that he believed' herein lay "the clue of the real character of recent events in Germany,

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