Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Begging admission to the U. S. at year's end were 657,353 suffering men and women (including 309,782 from Germany; 115,222 from Poland; 51,272 from Czechoslovakia; 32,836 from Hungary). The tiny Dominican Republic is welcoming refugees. France last week answered the frequent charge that it has admitted and then mistreated myriads of German and Spanish fugitives, showed that the French have at least done something. The U. S. people up to last week's end had shown no inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them...
...time the Commission submitted its report late last year, Great Britain was at war. In peacetime the Government might have made the smug point that, bad as things are in the British-ruled islands, they are a whole lot better than conditions in self-ruled Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But with a war on, it was better policy to do something to make things better. So last week up-&-doing little Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald uprose in the House of Commons to announce what the Government planned to do. Cagey Scot that he is, Mr. MacDonald...
Into this sea of misery there recently fell a drop of help from an odd quarter. At Ciudad Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's capital, the Dominican Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture and international refugee workers signed a contract providing for the immediate settlement of 500 refugee families in the Republic and the ultimate admission of 100,000 persons. Moreover, the Dominican Government agreed that the exiles...
...elegant figure of Sumner Welles. A career diplomat, 47, educated at Groton, Harvard, and the embassies at Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba in 1933 and hearing mobs shout "Down with Welles...