REFUGEE PROBLEM
| THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY. I ' The whole of the civilised world is today affected by the very serious problem of Jhe refugees, but in considering it let us take some comfort from the evidence of history, writes Sir John Hope Simpson, in the “Listener.” Throughout the ages, from the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, there have been repeated movements of refugees, sometimes very large movements. In more recent times there was the escape of Flemings to Great Britain, and of the Huguenots from France. There was the case of the UnI ited Empire Loyalists, who left the United States for Canada during and after the War of Independence. There was also the flight of scores of thousands of Russians, chiefly Russian Jews, from the pogroms and persecutions of the early years of this century. All of these movements at the time must have seemed just as insoluble as the present problem seems to us, but have proved to be temporary. The refugee populations have settled and been assimilated in their countries of refuge,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 6
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179REFUGEE PROBLEM Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 6
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