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impress, but it is fallacious, and, ̋ ab Sir Norman Angell says in his introduction to Mrs. Buxton's pamphlet, "one against which al- most every competent economist in the country has protested." A new resident who finds, work is not merely a 'producer but spender, and spending makes em- ployment. Our greatest un- employment lies in industries | which would hardly be affected by emigrant labour, while else- where its special skills would be valuable. The Empira has its empty spaces; that there is un- employment in some parts of it bears no relation to the fact that Australia, with six million people, has been said to need twenty- nine millions if that Dominion is Fur- to be properly developed.
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trends of our population, which the writers of "The Population Problem" maintain faces a sud- den decline over the next tury to a small part of what it lo to day. The cure was expressed by one of the five writers:
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A return to large families, or great and continued emigra- tion from abroad. Either or both of these can save the country from ultimate depopu- lation, but nothing else.
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1939. The economic effects of
THE REFUGEE PROBLEM
La de- cline in the numbers of those who consume what industry produces can easily be foreseen. The facts and arguments gathered together by Mrs. Roden Buxton go far to proving that the Government The feeling of civilised, people which adopts a liberal policy to- everywhere in the world, and not wards refugee immigration shows least in England, has been roused sense and a wise regard for its not only compassion but good
by the sufferings of victims per-own interests.
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generosity has been stirred, and The Talk of the Day relief funds, such as that of the Lord Mayor of London for the
"I am beginning to look upon conversation as a lost art," com- Czech refugees and that of Lord mented Mr. Jeffery Farmol, the Baldwin for the German, have well-known English author, in a mounted high. But it must not be recent interview. Many people, forgotten, that the problem is too comparing their experiences, as ********** Mr. Farnol compared his experi- immense to be solved by private ence, with the picture obtained by persons and that their money, reading the English classics, and, though immediately necessary for one might add, with what is re- the relief of hardship, is not corded of the table talk of the past, would come to the same enough to perfect a work which conclusion. In spite of the fact gfent Feeding can only succeed with much Gov- that the spoken word has en- deernmental assistance. The pro-croached to a considerable extent
blem of the refugees is that of written word; that modern inven- ·
on the former preserves of the finding them new homes. It has tions have enabled the world at hardly been attacked as yet, but large to emulate the diplomats in we may be certain that when substituting "conversations" for "notes," talk appears to have de- emigration policies are put before clined as an aesthetic occupation. the world there will be found, be Yet one hesitates to see in this side the sympathy which was only a lamentable result of the speeding up of existence, of the shown n this Christmas, some op lack of sufficient leisure, and of position, which will spring part-the competition of new distrac- ly from prejudice and partly from tions. What Stevenson called ignorance of the economic issues the grand jury of the talkers" is as much in, evidence as ever; involved. When a million people and if the members of it are less are driven from their own coun- concerned with the artistic merit tries and have to make their liv- of their performances, less set ing in others, it is natural for upon astonishing with their rhe their new neighbours to suspect toric, delighting with their elo- that their own livelihoods may be quence, and "keeping, the table in threatened. This simple fear a roar," they are perhaps the weighs heavily upon Govern- more in earnest more inclined ments, and it is not hard to im- to make it "stable talk" rather agine how it could be made to than an entertaining jugglery
upon the peoples under with words. KHESTRAL them. Such criticism has been In fact, if conversation is los- anticipated and met in Mrs. ing its art there is reason to Roden Buxton's pamphlet “The think that it is becoming more conomica of the Refugee Pro- responsible; and although the blem.
perfect combination is obviously It will be argued that because one of brilliance and earnestness; Great Britain has many unem- that has never been a wide. ployed, the settlement of refugees spread phenomenon, and the pre- would increase this problem and sent situation can hardly, in con- add to the distress of our own trast with the past, be reckoned people. This argument might altogether deplorable.
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