UPROOTED PEOPLES
PROBLEM OF MANY MILLIONS IN EUROPE
Recd. 11 p.m. London, Nov. 22. More than 30,000,000 people have been transplanted or torn from their homes since the outbreak of the war, says Eugene M. Kulischer in a book written for the International Labour Office.
This huge total, Kulischer adds, does not include all the people in Europe now - living away from their pre-war homes, the millions in enemy armed forces who are stationed abroad, war prisoners, or millions of Italian and German refugees who, during the last year, fled or evacuated from heavily-bombed cities. Jews uprooted from their homes may total more than 4,000,000.
Foreign labour employed in Germany, according to the writer’s latest knowledge, includes 1,300,000 Poles, 800,000 French civilians, 1,100,000 French war prisoners 1,500,000 Russian war prisoners, and 350,000 Italian civilians.
Before their repatriation after the war the uprooted people will have to be fed, clothed and medically treated. The stoppage of the German war machine will deprive millions of war prisoners and imported workers of employment, a problem the solution of which is beyond the powers of any single country.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 277, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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