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1 Louis Adamic, America and the Refugees 1 (1939)

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AMERICA


AND THE


REFUGEES

By
LOUIS   ADAMIC



THE PLIGHT of   the hundreds of thousands of persons who



     have been uprooted from their homes by religious and
     political persecution presents one of the most difficult
and urgent problems facing the civilized world today. It is,
in the main, a result of the developments in Germany since
1933, which reached a climax in 1938 when Naziism engulfed
Austria and Czechoslovakia. And the Nazi leaders in com-
mand  of the German Government  are swiftly gaining influ-
ence over other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Many  of these also contain large political, religious, and racial
minorities, apt to be added eventually to the already vast total
of men, women,  and children who want desperately to get
elsewhere    . anywhere ,  , to save their lives.
   The  aim of this pamphlet is not to ask why the situation
has developed in Nazi Germany. Nor is it to picture the entire


    Louis Adamic has long specialized in immigration problems. He is
  author of The Native's Return, 1934, Grandsons, 1935, and My
  America, 1938.
      Copyright, 1939, by the Public Affairs Committee, Incorporated
             -A nonprofit, educational organization-

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