Refugees in Britain , The correspondence between Sir Samuel Hoare
and Colonel Wedgwood on the Home Office's policy towards German refugees shows that, numerically speaking at all events, the " invasion of aliens " amounts to surprisingly little. Over the six years since Herr Hitler came to power the total has, allowing for re-emigration, reached only 25,000 —which compares with zoo,000 or thereabouts admitted into the U.S.A., where there is no restriction on the right to work. Reproaches to the hard-driven personnel of the Home Office are misdirected ; what is wanted is an altogether more generous policy, which should not be beyond the immediate economic capacities of the richest country in Europe. The long-run benefits of such a policy in counter-balancing the coming decline in our native population have been suffi- ciendy demonstrated to show that generosity need not be entirely its own reward.
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