Here again our principle of helping people opens an opportunity. While assisting by all possible means to prevent the outbreaks of violence in the Near East. would we not do well to remove one of its causes? New homes must be found for the refugees. Perhaps these will be in the Jordan Valley. Perhaps the irrigation works now started in the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers will reestablish the ancient agricultural wealth of Mesopotamia. If so. the region will call for hundreds of thousands of new settlers. The Government of Iraq would itself be strengthened by such an immigration. And so it goes in the underdeveloped countries. The opportunities for building stable communities are endless.
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