The Archive · 1938

Refugee Conference

London, Nov. 90.

Representatives of five nations will consider the problem of Jewish refugees in Central Europe at a con ference at the Foreign Office in London on Friday.

The meeting is that of the Inter~ Governmental. Vice-Chairman's Com= mittee on Refugees, which was set up after the Evian Conference.

Great Britain, the United States, France, Holland and Brazil will be represented at the meeting.

Mr, Rublee, American director of the Committee, will present a report embodying the results of his equities since the Evian Conference, These enquiries were centred on the possibility of Jewish immigration into any of the 31 countries represented at Jewish Children For Britain London, Nov. 29, The number of refugee children brought to the United Kingdom would depend upon the capacity of volunteer" organizations to. provide {or their support, declared Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question In the House of Commons yesterda By accepting membership, the thirty governments who were members of the London' inter-governmental. committee for refugees, he added, had shown that "they were prepared to ce-operate in finding a solution to tie German refugee problem.

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