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Writer Stresses U.S. Tradition of Asylum

April 21, 1939
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“The gesture of the United States in admitting 10,000 refugee children in each of two years is a small part of the general solution of the refugee problem which confronts the world,” David Lawrence, Washington commentator, said in his column in the New York Sun today, “but it would be worth doing if only to continue uninterruptedly the tradition of the Republic to afford political asylum to those whose lives are threatened because of race or religion or political beliefs.”

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