14 October 1938: Britain urged to help people fleeing territory recently occupied by the NazisThe results of the visit to Prague of Sir Harry Twyford,Lord Mayor of London, and Sir Neill Malcolm, or High Commissioner of the League of Nations for German Refugees,who accompanied him as an unofficial adviser, were reported to members of the Lord Mayor’s Relief Committee at the Mansion House to-day. The most urgent refugee problem is that of the Germans who own fled into Czecho-Slovakia from the newly occupied territory rather than risk the hostility of the Nazi regime. It is estimated that there are some 25000 such refugees; most of them are Social Democrats, and but there are some Jews. The Prague Government is anxious to be rid of them,fearing that they may form a novel minority which will be a source of pains between Berlin and Prague. These refugees are, therefore, or faced with the alternatives of being forced back into territory whose Government they anxiety or of being without a resting-place of any kind.
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Source: theguardian.com