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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters, always in need of women for the white-slave trade which supplies Africa and South American countries with prostitutes, were reported circulating in the camps looking for new personnel...
Perhaps, however, "patriotism" refuses to admit this. All right, say "Wilderness and Cold Harbor-and the 1st Bull Run, and Antietam and Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg" before spirit succumbed to might-as in Spain...
Christendom has grown from a compact 500,000 souls in the 1st Century to a sprawling 682,400,000 today, of whom almost half (331,500,000) are Roman Catholics. In the world's population (nearly two billion) Christians are far outnumbered by non-Christians: Confucianists and Taoists (350,600,000), Hindus (230,000,000), Mohammedans (209,000,000), Buddhists (150,180,000). In teeming China, Christians are less than 1% of the population, in India about 2%, in Japan less than...