EUROPE'S REFUGEES
Sra,—I have read the Rev. Henry Carter's letter on the problem of German refugees with mixed feelings. Whatever is the fate of Germans evicted from Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries, their hardships cannot be compared with the misery and tragedy of hundreds of thousands of Displaced Persons in camps in Germany. After all, these Germans are now re-settled in their own country, among their own people, while the Displaced Persons, most of whom are victims of Germany, are living in a hostile country and are unable to return to their Russian-dominated countries. Some of them were inmates of German concentration camps. Others were deported to Germany for slave labour. The vast nurnber of these Displaced Persons is being increased by new refugees, fleeing from the political persecution of the Communist regimes imposed on their countries. All of them are rotting in D.P.'s camps in Germany, without hope for the future.
However understandable Mr. Carter's attitude is from the Christian
point of view, it is surely an incontrovertible fact, from that or any other point of view, that the victims ought to receive at least as much considera-
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