WITHOUT A COUNTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

WITHOUT A COUNTRY

STRANGERS AND EX'LES By L.B. TN "Strangers Everywhere." by Pcm, + i s to ho found tho history and cx'poricnces of a. score or so of people who, for political, racial or other reasons have been driven from their own country to make tho best of things in a, strange and often hostilo land. Their means of livelihood has been taken from them, their belongings have vanished and they themselves have been turned overnight into homeless without country or rights of any kind. Novels have been written about peoplo who have been doomed to wander endlessly between frontiers, but probablv nothing can paint the picture as it really exists. Peoplo without an acknowledged existence are to-day to be found in every country and the governments of the world have their hands full in dealing with them. This problem of refugees indeed has become sf> overwhelming that it tends to crowd the human aspect, as it affects tho individual man woman and child, into the background. The author of the book is himself a refugee from Berlin who since 1936 has been living in London where he arrived penniless and friendless. Much of it is written around his own experiences and those of follow exiles whom he has come across in his struggles to live. It: is written without self-pity and without. bitterness of any kind. Often there is a dispassionate sense of humour. "Strangers Everywhere," by Pern. (John L.'uio.)