One of the most tragic results of these years of war. revolution. and aggression has been the uprooting of millions of people. people driven from their homes. people who can never return to their native lands. people haunted by the fear of persecution because of race. religion. or political belief. The U.S. Committee on Refugees has stated this problem well: It has been said. and truly so. that this Is the century of the homeless man. More than 2 million human beings throughout the world are living a shadowy half existence. For the most part they possess neither home nor country. They are the waiting people of our time. owning only a worn suitcase or two. a few blankets. a shred of selfrespect. and sometimes a dossier of papers that makes the rounds while they wait * * * and wait. Who are these waiting people? They are the refugees of moldcentury Europe. Algeria. Palestine.
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