Representations regarding refugees it Czechoslovakia have been made to His Majesty's Government by a number of interested bodies and persons in recent weeks.
Today a-deputation, under the auspices of the National Council for Civil Liberties, including Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P., Sir Norman Angell, Sir John Hope-Simpson, and Mr, H. G Wells, was received by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax.
Miss Rathbone and Sir John Hope-Simpson, as spokesmen of the deputation, pressed upon Lord Halifax the imperative need for the British and Dominioh Government to make immediate arrangements for the removing of large numbers of refugees from Czechoslovakia with adequate financial provision for large-scale schemes of settlement.
Lord Halifax thanked the deputation for laying their views before him and said that the Government were doing everything in their power to de&l with this difficult problem. He promised that the views of the deputation would receive his careful consideration.
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