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The World's Exiles

The Refugee Problem. Report of a Survey. By Sir John Hope Simpson, K.B.E., C.I.E. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) In any ill-seeing spirit gazing down like the Pities in The......

A Plea For America

NEAR the five-hundredth page of this book comes a section called " Random Portraits and Snapshots," and this title might have been used a little earlier, for the first......