INDIGENT FOREIGNERS
ASSISTANCE PROBLEM GENEVA CONVENTION British Wireless RUGBY, Feb. 27 A message from Geneva states that the committee of experts convened by the League of Nations to examine the problem of assistance to indigent foreigners and the execution of maintenance obligations abroad, concluded its third session. It drafted the text of a model convention for use by the Governments in concluding among themselves arrangement in favour of indigent foreigners. The model convention is based on the idea that national legal protection must extend to foreigners living in the country and that the principles of humanity and social order justify public aid to foreigners without means of subsistence. The regulation of social insurance, unemployment relief and judicial assistance is left outside the scope of the convention. The number of foreigners in the world who might benefit by the assistance outlined in the convention is estimated at 29,000,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 11
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