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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 9, 1988.

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quences of Germany's treatment fof the Jews? The Nazis.persist in the pursuit of these unfortunate people in a manner which excites indignation among all liberal- minded peoples. What was and is entirely indefensible in Germany 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 appears even more out of place in annexed Austria, where, a Notice To Contributors.

Jew-baiting, admittedly by Aus- All communications intended for trians has become a fine art. publication should be addressed to Other nations can do nothing to the Editor, and be accompanied by abate the terror; each must de- the Writer's Name and Address, cide for itself whether it feels not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith.

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any moral constraint to interest itself in the results.

The test of the sincerity of international sympathy with the refugees and would-be- refugees will come when the Conference Committee tackles the task of taking practical steps to succour

Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 9, 1938, them. Pious resolutions will not

THE REFUGEE PROBLEM

any

help the distressed or deliver the oppressed from the hands of the persecutor. They must be given sanctuary in new lands and as- sistance to reach those lands. How far are the nations repre- It was recently authoriatively sented prepared to go?

What stated by Sir John Hope Simp opportunities for land settlement son, the Director of the new Lea or employment in trades and pro- gue of Nations' Refugees Survey, fessions has each of them to that there are over a million re-offer? And to what extent will. fugees in the world to-day. He

of them be willing to open did not include in this figure its doors? Is Australia, for the China- refugee lists. He example ready to adopt a gener- referred only to those people ous policy? The practical diffi- in Europe, including Russia, culties, as in the United States, who have been uprooted from South America, and elsewhere, their homes, and driven to cannot be disregarded, of course. live or die in alien lands. These Indiscriminate immigration would millions and more people connot be tolerated by any country. stitute a problem in international The effect of a considerable in- salvage so vast as to appear in flux of migrants upon economic solube, especially since new per-and racial balances has to be secutions are adding to the leg-weighed. Yet over-nicety in ions of the homeless as fast as such calculations must defeat the earlier exiles can be found shelter whole purpose of the Evian Con- and sustenance. Here, indeed, inference, and expose the delega- the recent fresh exodus from Cen-tions to the taunt that democra- tral Europe, is the saddest and tic commiseration with and cruellest feature of the refugee championship of persecuted peo- tragedy. Time and the labours of ples stop short of giving them the Nansen organisation under the only kind of sympathy and the League had mitigated the support that counts. It may mat- worst evils of the mass explu- ter little what the ruthless auth- sions and fear-impelled migra-ors of the new refugee problem tions which resulted from the think it matters much that Great War. But now, in time of something should be done to re- peace, anti-Semitic frenzy in lieve the sufferings of the vic- Germany and Austria is forcing tims of misfortune. into, exile new armies of demor-

alised and destitute people

people, many of them of high

cultural and professional attain- The Spaced-Out Bath

ments, who have been confronted

with the stark alternatives of

emigration or annihilation, but Some indignation seems to to whom fanaticism has not have been aroused by the sug- allowed even the means to trans-gestion said to have been put meeting of the port themselves abroad.

Forward at a

e Water Board that The plight of these political Biggleswade refugees, mostly but not entirely as an emergency measure work- a fort- Jewish, must invite the compas- ing people should take

To sion of the outside world, and nightly, not a weekly, bath. it is to the credit of the United anyone who is inclined to look on States Government that, when personal cleanliness as class the German seizure of Austria privilege a glance at the habits opened a wider field, it took the of the past might be illuminating. initiatve in proposing an inter Queen Elizabeth's custom of national Conference to consider washing her body "in fair water” means of facilitating the migra- before she was really dirty was tion and absorption of the vic the subject of admiring comment tims. Great Britain responded in a contemporary diary, and in cordially to Mr. Cordell Hull's the household accounts of." "Ed- overture, and 30 other nations ac-ward IV it is stipulated what pay- cepted the invitation to attend ment shall be made to the ap- the Conference, which was held propriate official if in any week at Evian (France) recently and the King shall wash his head, One is tempted resulted in the formation of a legs, or feet. permanent committee in London. to wonder what was the propor- It is a temptation to any coun- tion of "blank" weeks, and whe- try, when there is difficult and ther the portions of the royal unpopular rescue work to be anatomy were taken in regular done, to disclaim responsibility rotation.

or obligation, and, like the In at least one of the Cam- Pharisee of old, to pass by on bridge colleges baths were ins- the other side, The temptation talled less than twenty years is all the greater when the task ago, and at the time a story,

ises, from the doubtless apocryphal, was

in the town that one v doti had opposed the