Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Czechoslovak knew that each day masses of Germans at Nürnberg, as many as 250,000 in a single audience, were bellowing cheers at each fresh threat by a German leader against the Czechoslovak Republic (see p. 19). So hot was this roaring menace that all over Czechoslovakia...
Leon Trotsky, cooped up in his Mexico City refuge and pledged to silence on matters affecting Mexico, almost burst with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for...
Said Minister Zay: "I was unable myself to be the first to enter, but from the highest point I was able to reach I declare Vallot Refuge open." Said Colleague Frossard: "Thanks to Zay, the honor of the Government will be safe!"
Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia also reached the refugee saturation point. She announced that a batch of 400 Austrian refugees who had been allowed temporary refuge in the country would be forcibly driven back into Germany at the first opportunity. Working in the dead of night, Czechoslovak police took 15 such refugees to a remote spot on the German border, and drove them over undetected by German frontier guards. Prepared for the worst, the Bureau last week tentatively added 60,000 Italian Jews to its list of potential refugees...
1) American-supported colleges, as the nearest thing to neutral territory in fighting areas, were the only refuge for Chinese women from slaughter and rapine. Teacher Minne Vautrin of Ginling reported the admission of 10,000 young women to Ginling grounds: "Never shall I forget the faces of the young...