The Archive · 1938

London, Oct. 2%

The refugee question was a world problem, and a resolute èffort should be made at a solution, declared the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Gordon Long, speaking at a luncheon held yesterday in support of Abyssinia's refugee relief fund.

The Primate said:—"We have only to think of some million refugees from Germany and Austria, and refugees from Czechoslovakia and China, "Our nation, together with other Western nations, could /not escape the responsibility for the circumstances which have driven these people from their homes."—Reuter, Prague, Oct. 26.

Immediately after his appointment today as new President of the Ruthenian Cabinet, Mgr. Augustin Volosin left by aeroplane for Uzhorod, the Ruthenian capital, where he was welcomed with a great demonstration Organized by patriotic Ruthenian groups aiming to maintain the integrity of their land and of the Czechoslovakian Republic.

Mgr. Volosin reaffirmed that the Ruthenian people "energetically refuse a plebiscite for they have already definitely established thèir political affliction."

"We are all for a confederation type of State for the Czechs, Slovaks and Ukrainians (Ruthenians)."—Havas.

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