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|40 000 houses for them in the country and 27,000 in the towns. settled Office has The Nansen nearly 50,000 Armenians in Syria (and they may be refugees again when France gives up the Sanjak of Alexandretta). Over a hundred thousand Russians have been set- tled in forty-five different coun- tries, and the Saarlanders who fled after the voting in 1935 were

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humanitarian work has cost the Notice To Contributors.

League little. The argument the therefore that the work of All communications intended for office is expensive and should be in the hands of private charities publication should be addressed to cannot be justified. The Nansen.

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the Editor, and be accompanied by Office is backed by the prestige of its first president, the merit of

working it has and the moral forces: but League. No private body could intervene 80 powerfully with Governments, and if, on the other hand, the refugee work were un- dertaken by the League Secre- tariat itself, certain oversensitive States might be even less helpful than they are to-day. It should not be said that the Nansen Of- fice was killed by the spite of its enemies and the inertia of its friends. The refugees challenge to the European con science and to the League which

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, March 2, 1938 should be its keeper. The League

THE REFUGEES

has been found wanting as a po litical force; its best hope for the future is to stand firmly by its humane traditions.

At the end of this year, if ear- lier decisions of the League As- sembly hold, the Nansen Interna-Labour And A Boycott tional Office

for Refugees willĮ close. The decisions were made

The international organisations ten years ago, partly because it of Labour, on British initiative, was supposed that the refugee have decided against the hazar dous course of trying to impose a problem would have been solved trade union embargo on Japan. It by 1938 and partly because cer is hazardous because, however tain States, whose political ex-excellent the motives, it cannot from tremism eclipsed their humanity, be carried out uniformly

one country to another, it brings viewed the Nansen Office with hardship and dangers to the in- suspicion. But in a speech the nocent persons who operate the other day at the Nobel Institute boycott, and it does not involve in Oslo, Mr. Michael Hansson, the equal responsibility on the part of all trade unionists. An organ- President of the Nansen Office ised boycott in the British Isles, declared that there are 600,000 as Mr. Marchbank, the railway- pointed out, refugees in the world to-day- men's secretary,

would fall first and heaviest on Russians, Armenians, Assyrians, the transport unions the sea-, Turks, and Saarlanders. To the men, the port workers, the rail- unhappy legacy of the Great War waymen. It is probable that must be added the Germans who their refusal to handle goods * would be declared illegal; they have left their country since Hit would certainly penalise them- ler came to power; they are wat-selves, and they could only be ched over by the special German ineffectually assisted by workers in other industries. The Brus- High Commission, which comes

sels conference of the two inter- to an end at the same time as the nationals decided, therefore, on a First they Nansen Office. In face of this, less onerous policy.

a boycott of Japanese and the future fear that men and call for

the part of consumers, women may fly from Spain and goods on

a boycott that each individual Se- that Rumania may discriminate can exercise for himself. among its people, the enemies of condly, they demand that Govern- the-Nansen Office still do not re-ments by applying sanctions un- lax their campaign. Soviet Rus-der the League Covenant shall sia charges it with being

run do the job properly. The demand largely by and mainly for the is logical enough, but the inter- White Russians. Italy, before she nationals have the comfort of left the League, considered it an knowing that there is little chance her of their advice being accepted. institution too liberal for tastes. This double accusation is Their "detailed plan," covering the finest tribute to the Nansen everything from refusal to buy Office's fairness. It has ever or sell to "serious guarantees of in the finan- held to the humanitarian path, mutual assistance. not concerning itself with politics cial and economic sphere, and and race but seeking only to find eventually

" will be interesting when a permanent home for hunted sphere, men without a country.

it appears, but it is putting it In his speech Mr. Hansson re-mildly to say that the co-opera- viewed its work. When Greece tion of the United States in the and Turkey fought in 1922 1,300,- plan “would be of first importance. It is, 000 Greeks and 200,000 Bulgar-in assuring its success.. Hang Bed from

Minor to indeed, the only conceivable con- their native lands. The League dition but how. near has the High Commission, of which United States come towards see Fridtjof Nansen was head, built ing things in the same light?

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