Foreign News: Havens of Refuge

A group of 19 newsmen, mostly from the U. S., last week visited a lost world of misery, the concentration camps of Unoccupied France, which few outsiders had been allowed to see since the German conquest. In those camps still languish 30,000 people, mostly refugees from Germany, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia,who found shelter in France before the fall.

During a five-day inspection tour conducted by French authorities, the correspondents saw five camps: Recebedou, Noe and Le Vernet in the vicinity of Toulouse, Rivesaltes and Argeles-sur-Mer near Perpignan. Three more they did not see, including...

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