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U. S. Long Haven For Persecuted
- Sub-Headline
- Tradition Goes Back to Time Of Pilgrims, Puritans, And Catholics of Maryland
- Publication Date
- Monday, March 28, 1938
- Historical Event
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Evian Conference Offers Neither Help, Nor Haven
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- 18
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- WASHINGTON. March 27 (AP)— Secretary Hull's proposal to 33 nations to join in aiding the political refugees from Austria and Germany carries on a firmly-fixed American tradition.
The New World has been and is a haven for the politically oppressed.
This tradition goes back to the time of the early founders of America, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, the Huguenots, and the Catholics of Maryland. These were all politically persecuted peoples.
After the United States became a nation, the first wave of political emigres came as a result of the French revolution of 1789. There was another after Waterloo when hundreds of Napaleon's veterans left France.
The United States was again the haven of the politically persecuted following the failure of the numerous revolutions of 1848 in Europe.
Many Germans in U. S.
St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati, among other cities, owe large parts of their population to the Germans who came over at that time and later did valiant service in the Civil War.
Thousands of persecuted Jews in Russia and Poland came later.
Another wave was made up of Cubens who fled to the United States from the oppression of Madrid's representatives.
There are areat names in the list of refugees the United States has welcomed such names as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, afterwards Napoleon III of France; Joseph Bonaparte, king of Spain, and Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian liberator.
Other Famous Refugees
Among other famous political refugees have been: Carl Schurz, an exile from Germany, who became a United States Senator and Secretary of the Interior; Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, over whom an acrimonious diplomatic exchange developed between this government and Austria-Hungary.
Ex-Presidents Machado of Cuba; Diaz and Calles of Mexico, and Davila of Chile.
Einstein, the scientist.
Carlo Sforza, formerly Italian minister of foreign affairs, and Gaetano Salvemini, noted Italian editor.
Kerensky, ex-premier of Russia, and Thomas Mann, German Nobel Prize winner, are temporarily in the United States at present.
In recent times the United States has been very sympathetic to international movements to take care of political refugees. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
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