Help for Refugees
This country is in some danger of falling behind the United States, where a War Refugee Board has been established by President Roosevelt under a capable director, in its solicitude for the miserable millions of depatriated people throughout Europe. But some progress was made when the House of Commons on Wednesday approved a token vote of Lso,000 for the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees. Mr. Law said the Government welcomed the establish- ment of the War Refugee Board in America, but there was already in existence here a Refugee Department at the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office does not command unlimited confidence where execu- tive matters are concerned, and it is to be hoped that the various Members of Parliament who took part in an important public meeting on this subject in London on Tuesday will make the Government conscious of their vigilance.
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