The Archive · 1923

THE REFUGEES

July 2.

THE report of the meeting held last Friday at the Charity Organization Committee's office focuses tention anew on a problem which it is to be feared most of us had begun to treat as nonexistent. On the contrary, it is painfully alive. - Neither the numbers of refugees nor their destitution lias decreased; the organizations that have been caring for them are all but at the end of their resources; and it was plainly hinted at the meeting that suicide, starvation and crime loom menacingly near as the inevitable outcome of the

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