he Overseas Migration
However convincing the Government's reasons, voiced by It. Attlee on Tuesday, for the suspension of the scheme for e migration of children to the Dominions and the United tates may be, the suspension itself is matter for unqualified sgret, the more so since, as things stand, there is at least an pearance of discrimination, for a number of children whose arents could pay their charges have gone, while children whose arents could not have now to wait indefinitely. What the ovemment's explanation comes to is that they cannot spare aval vessels for convoy, and they cannot take the risk of nding the children unconvoyed. That is intelligible, but if, s Mr. Attlee says, shipping is not the difficulty, there is every- ing to be said for the proposal put forward by Sir Evelyn rench in Tuesday's Times that voluntary bodies like the Over- -as League and the English-Speaking Union, for which he articularly speaks, should be encouraged to raise funds and rganise migration for poorer children on such a scale as may c possible, so far as parents desire to send their children in '11 knowledge of the risks involved. That would have the dditional advantage of mitigating the disappointment widely elt in Canada and the United States at the prospect that the ospitality so generously offered will have been offered in vain.
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