Oral Answers to Questions — Refugees.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1939.

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Photo of Mr R.A. Butler Mr R.A. Butler , Saffron Walden

The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies informed the hon. Members for Dudley (Mr. Joel) and East Birkenhead (Mr. White) on 31st January, a Commission of Inquiry will shortly arrive in British Guiana to examine the possibility of the settlement of refugees in that Colony. Consideration of the method of financing any settlement which may prove possible must await the Commission's report.