Local newspapers energetically protested today against a League of Nations plan to settle 20,000 Assyrians from Iraq in Brazil. Brazilian papers demand that preference be given to European immigrants and particularly to German refugees.
The police here have forbidden the sale of tickets for the national German lottery. A number of tickets for the lottery and a large sum of money was confiscated by the police.
The Assyrians whom the League progases to settle in Brazil are Christians who live in the midst of a Moslem population in Iraq. They are a war-like people. During the World War they served the British as scouts and soldiers. The British promised to give them territory for themselves following the War, but the word was never kept.
Recently the Assyrians reyolted against the government of Iraq. A number of Assyrians were killed in clashes with the Iraq army.
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