It looks as though the baffting problem of what to do with the: Assyrian Christians which has been. exercising the mind of the League of Nations for some years past is nearing a solution. 'The 'Persecution plans which they have endured and the difficulty of finding some place where they could settle and live in peace made the case of these Assyrians a particularly unhappy one, and though Britain' had" no. immediate responsibility in the matter, the government viewed the possible fate of these people with no little concern, and went to their assistance to the tune of no Tess a sum than £4,000,000, Early in 1934 the Brazilian Government, in response to an inquiry from the League consented to allow the settlement in that country of Assyrians Who had been expelled from Iraq. The proposal aroused the strongest hostility in Brazil, and as a result of the representations then made the Minister of Labour appointed a commission to study the matter, and this latter reported adversely on the proposal and described the suggested immigration as undesirable. "A second suggestion was put forward that these People might be settled in British Guiana, but that also came to naught. Settlement in the Levant under French Mandate seems (o be just a5 satisfactory as either of the other: Schemes, for it is obvious that these distressed people stand in urgent heed of the protection which France should be able to give, while the transfer to the Ghat area will not mean $0 great a climatic change as would have been lavalved by removal to either Brazil or British Guian
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