Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 42 | Host of Men without Country Roam Europe

Host of Men Without Country Roam Europe OENKVA. Aug;. . On of th count, leaa poet-war problem which th league of nations haa been attempting te solve la what to do with th world's waif and ' strays, man) particularly those of Russia. Thar are hundred ef thouaand of human beings at the preeent time on the continent of Europe wh' cannot claim altlasnshlp of any country. They are scattered all ever the continent,' and are registered-by the police as J being en the tolerance list, but In reality real-ity they are to a certain extent prisoners. prison-ers. They cannot go about from one country to another with the freedom of an ordinary parson whoa passport la altogether la order. Another and not the leaat trying, consequence of their lack of cltlaenahlp le that theee unfortunate cannot claim the protecting of any consul, minister or ambassador, la Berlin aloaa leers are about half a million Russian wh hav no passports, and who refuee eltber to be registered at the bolshevik oosalata there aa Ruaaian cities ns. or to return to Russia. Similarly in Turkey, Jugoalavia, Budgarla and Rumania Ru-mania there re thousanda of Ruaaian refugee who nationality la equally ambiguoua At Ir. Naneen'e suygestion a conference con-ference of representative of IT government gov-ernment wa called by the league of nationa recently to dlecuea the beat way of dealing with the problem. It waa auggeeted that the leagu of nation na-tion ba empowered to register all such -people, and iaeue to them a sort of International In-ternational passport which would ba recognised aa auch, ao that they would be citlaena of th leagu of nationa rather than of any country, and be, so to speak, under lta protection. At th conference, however. It wa pointed out that It I one thing to grant auch people passport a, and nulla another to Indue th various countries- to visa theee paeaporta. Not all of theaa "country leas" pee. pie a re In tb position of Russisne who decline to recognise tb bolshevik government. gov-ernment. Many of tbem have lost their eitisenshlp owing tor a variety at technical and legal reason. Certain American citlaena who lived la Europe before tba war. in daya when passport were reoulrted for Ruaala and Turkey only, found during the war that they had lost their American eitisenshlp because be-cause of having beea too long abroad. Othere lost theirs because of tha partitioning par-titioning of Austria-Hungary and of parte of Germany. la some Inst noes , theee citlsen of ao country hve had children bom In countries of which, by law. th children hav automatic-1 alljr hemes eltlaens. - . J