Notes

THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE ON RELIEF AND IMMIGRATION reports that since March, 1938, twenty-nine individuals who have come to this country from Europe have turned to the Committee for aid, advice, and assistance. Of these twenty-nine, two are neuropsychiatrists, three are lay analysts, two are medical students whose work was interrupted by the European crisis, and who were sent to us

because they had begun their analytic training abroad. The rest are physicians who are psychoanalysts and members of one of the recognized European societies. Of these, seven have been recognized abroad as training analysts. With the assistance of this Committee and of other agencies as well, positions have been found for fifteen of these emigrés in widely scattered communities of this country. There is at present a group of fourteen refugees in the New York area. Of these, three will probably remain permanently in New York itself. The rest are in all likelihood to be regarded as in transit through New York.

The Committee has made every effort to impress upon the European colleagues the necessity and the wisdom of scattering through the country. There can be no question but that if the doors of this country are to be kept open to the further immigration of refugees, it is necessary that all refugees, as they come, should move inland from the port of entry. Everyone who has studied this problem is agreed on this point, and it has not been difficult to make our European friends realize its necessity. At the same time this subjects them to grave additional emotional strain; and it is important for us to assist them in their readjustment by not pushing them too rapidly towards this difficult step. On the other hand, too long a delay before moving to a permanent home engenders fresh anxieties and new uncertainties, with an additional tendency for the emigré to become involved in commitments which then bind him to the spot where he has first arrived. For this reason it is unwise tha