... the minds of every parent wishing to send their children overseas at the time. It also made clear the risks involved and asked parents to carefully consider the options: to evacuate their children overseas or to the safer parts of Britain. From the late summer of 1939, at beginning of the Second World War, parents have been evacuating their children to the countryside to the care of either relatives or kindly strangers willing to take them in their own homes under Operation Pied Piper. As the war progressed, by the end of May 1940 invitations to take British children evacuees began to trickle in from the Dominions, first from Canada and later from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States of America. At the time the Government was as yet undecided as to what steps should be taken regarding these offers and questions were addressed to the Parliamentary Under ...

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