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World revulsion was swift.
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Yet Britain was the only country
willing to relax its immigration controls.
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But only for children who would not
threaten British jobs or public funds.
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Days after the Nazi pogrom...
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...Anglo-Jewish leaders
met with Prime Minister Chamberlain ...
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...and urged him to let into the country
unaccompanied children...
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...Christian as well as Jewish...
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...up to the age of 1 7.
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Six days later,
Quakers joined Jewish leaders...
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...to present the government
a concrete rescue plan...
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...to be funded by refugee
and religious organizations.
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That night, the House of Commons
debated the issue...
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...and approved the plan.
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My youth leader said:
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´´Call Otto Hirsch.
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´´There is a job for you to be done. ´´
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So l went and saw him, and he said:
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"´I have a request.
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"´We have been informed...
:20:00
"´...that the British government,
the House of Commons...
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"´...had discussed the destiny
of Jews in Germany after...
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"´...aII this pubIicity...
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"´...and they are disgusted."´
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´´They came to the conclusion...
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´´...to accept children for a certain time.
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´´We have an office for the operations.
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"´See what you can do."´
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As the transports got underway
in Germany and Austria...
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...thousands of Sudetenland refugees
continued to flee to Prague.
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English stockbroker Nicholas Winton...
:20:36
...was summoned by a friend
to view the situation for himself.
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He toured refugee camps
with Doreen Warriner...
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...a representative of the British Committee
for Refugees from Czechoslovakia.
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We did have the feeIing
that the position was much more urgent...
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...than anybody in London thought.