Colonial Secretary Malcolm McDonald:
“HOWEVER BRUTAL IT MIGHT SOUND, TO REMOVE 20,000 CHILDREN FROM POLAND AT THIS MOMENT WOULD SIMPLIFY THE GERMAN ECONOMIC PROBLEM.” [THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO FEED THE 20,000 CHILDREN.]
Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: British Policy towards Jewish Refugees 1933 to 1946; Miriam Rothschild and John Foster Human Rights Trust