ABSTRACT
Winston Churchill was against sending children overseas at the start of the war. He thought it could lead to "a movement of such dimensions that a crop of alarmist and depressive rumours would follow at its tail, detrimental to the interest of national defence". Nevertheless, in 1939, as concern over the war grew, some 100,000 parents applied to have their children taken from Britain to safety abroad. The evacuation of children abroad went on until October 1940 and the only reason it stopped then was because it was no longer safe to send children overseas. None of these children got or will ever get any legal compensation or acknowledgement. Unlike the wartime evacuees, they had no guardians to watch over their welfare. The child migrant, in any case, had no understanding of the law and was in no position to approach anyone if he had.
