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But those were days when Britain WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
ys that it would be after 20 years? In Greece, the Rus- coration-witness the magnificent ease the present po- sian emigres have markedly raised ceilings of our country houses-and ,000 by 50 times the whole standard of agriculture. even, to some extent, in the build- in a country where They have introduced new indus- ing of railings and bridges. They 00 square miles can tries to a country which was indus- repaid their debt in full." ble for colonisation, trially adolescent. They brought a. at to consider is the new and vigorous strain into a na- h existing countries tion which seemed at one time as. best fit this flow of though it might follow the old Tur- oto their existing key as runner-up for the title of he lessons of his- "Sick Man of Europe." vay. Wars and con- In France it said that the best ays produced mass of the Russians have materially fugees. Some have contributed to the improvement of new countries and the general economic system. as the Dutch, the England knew her greatest in- lemings, the Hugu- flux of foreign refugees after the French Revolu- revocation of the Edict of Nantes re absorbed in this in 1686. Eighty thousand French- have never settled. men settled here in about 15 years. fugitive "culture" that overwork- These refugee brains and their to their ori- There were 30 French churches in ed, misused word-will find the London alone, and others at Bristol, surest welcome in those parts of Plymouth and Bideford, in East the earth Anglia, and, in Ireland, in Dublin, need to be built up, where science where industries still Cork and Waterford.
lags, where medicine is but poorly
ned
due course. A not-
s that of the Bel-
f 1914-16. Few or
J. rth Day
was an agricultural country, poor in manufacturing and scientific say that we stand in less need of knowledge. To-day it is nó boast to tuition in the fine arts and in the varied branches of manufacturing, medicine, science and the rest of the bricks which make the compli- cated edifice of our unwieldy civili- sation.
though they are, which history has known through all its ages. But Great Britain to-day is too small in area, too over-populated, too under- employed to bear the brunt of this new White Man's Burden.
But long before these Huguenots understood. There is still room in arrived there had been an influx of the world for yet another of those Calvinists from the Low Countries redistributions of population, tragic and from Northern France, in the end of the reign of Henry VIII, Ed- ward VI deliberately encouraged tempted to create them. He thought they were good hew lives outside for trade and good for the nation. rent back,
In 1550 a Charter gave them re- UPHEAVALS ligious liberty. The Church of The Government, by its policy of Austin Friars became their official careful scrutiny, is acting wisely place of worship. Later, some of but not inhumanely-for charity be- them moved to St. Martin's-le- gins at home. Grand.
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seas of Balkan and chaos, the whirlpool of the on-these events nt stories to tell. Balkans sent vast
"SCOTTISH" ORIGINS
If you ask any man named Dou- rs to America to glas, Moray or Fleming he will tell n a country where you that his name is of pure Scots t heard was the origin. It is no more Scots than the
of the Thompson surnames of Leslie, Sutherland or There are, of Innes. The whole lot descend from the United States that horde of Flemings who pour-
the Balkan emi- e Thompson gun
n Red and White
18, sent 1,500,000
ed into Scotland between 1100 and 1400, bringing their wives, families. and surnames with them.
Hence the crow-step gables and the pepper-pot turrets, the first flying for safety. Flemish in origin and the second 5 different coun- French, which the Scots have plas- egrated followers tered all
over their castles
and
sin, Wrangel and piously christened "Scots baronial
band of royalist style."
ee-fighters who What did these Protestant Dutch, umbling ideals. Flemings, Walloons and French- tered thousands men bring us, in England? They 000, Poland 400,- brought us the Canterbury ́ silk 00,000 Turkey weavers in 1547, whose descendants lly enough, 100,- to-day still have the right to wor- about 200,000, ship in the crypt of the Cathedral. tes the rest. At They benefited English history and efugees were re- trade not only when they taught us, e as an unmixed in my native East Anglia, to make money. No one cloth from our own wool, but when ey were a strain they added to our knowledge in quers. They add- such trades and industries as the of harassed Gov- making 'and use of cotton, paper, linen, glass, sailcloth; to our know- been their effect ledge in architecture, interior de-
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