Refugees

Fermi and another European refugee, Leo Szilard, discussed the impact nuclear fission would have on physics and on the veiy unstable state of the world... 

Garg PK, Perry S, Dorn M, et al. Risk of intestinal helminth and protozoan infection in a refugee population. Am I Trop Med Hyg 2005 73 386-391. 

Non-compliance issues appear more prevalent in some non-Western cultures. One study in South Africa revealed non-compliance rates to oral neuroleptics in two-thirds of Black patients and one-half of colored patients compared to only one-quarter of Caucasians (Gillis.Trollip, Jakoet etal., 1987). Cultural and communication factors were considered to be significant barriers apart from those related to cost and social factors. Kinzie et al. (1987) reported that despite prescribing adequate doses of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) to depressed Asian refugees,... 

Recalling the three million people who had died of typhus after World War I, Geigy also developed DDT products to kill lice. After studying Muller s compound, a Swiss typhus expert confirmed DDT s usefulness in killing the typhus carriers. Next, DDT was tested on pest-ridden Italian refugees in Swiss internment camps and on soldiers in the Swiss Army. 

Every day troops arrived who had not washed for a month. Some of their vehicles were faded and dirty. Not only was this fellow a welcome quartermaster, but working for him were the best of all character witnesses — refugees from the concentration camps across the Pohsh border. He had brought them here, and while they didn t talk much, they worked hard for him and said nothing to refute his claim that he had picked them all and trained them so that, when they returned home, they would have skilled professions. 

I pulled out Book 89 from the top drawer of my desk. "Listen to this report we received in the United States. The War Refugee Board published it and broadcast its contents in 1944. It s true that some of our own State Department officials said then that it was nothing but propaganda but after all they were thousands of miles away, and this Tribunal is here and almost smothered by corroborating evidence. Here it is, a couple of Slovak Jews who escaped after two years in Auschwitz.. .."... 

I was then, in 1943, Chief Counsel of the Treasury s Foreign Funds Control. The Treasury had prohibited financial transactions between occupied Europe and the United States, and we had been studying how we might use the power of foreign exchange to get some refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish, out of Europe. 

John Pehle, head of Foreign Funds Control, was often referred to as Morgenthau s fair-haired boy. He was blond, not many years out of Yale, and an extremely able administrator. Usually, he was calm now he was furious. For two months death had lain on State Department desks. Roughly 200,000 more refugees — political and "Eastern peoples" as well as Jews — had been killed. Pehle put the matter up to me. 

The earliest and most important decisions of the War Refugee Board involved Auschwitz. Our first job was to get the doomed out of Poland. "And we ve got to tell the perpetrators we know we ve got to warn them that we know they know and that one day they will be punished." Was this secondary purpose in vain ... 

Gallman and I proceeded to British Undersecretary Hall s office. It was clear from the first that the British wanted no public answer of any kind. I continued to insist. Hall understood that the War Refugee Board had been merely a political move of the President s, and I hastened to correct that false impression. The President meant business, I said, and was determined to have the job done. 

The effort of the War Refugee Board to make sure that programs... 

Who was a Red and who not a Red any more Who a Jew and who not a Jew President Truman himself at times seemed confused on these matters. On our return from Europe, Pauley had made a report to the President recommending an international agreement under which each United Nation (with a few exceptions) would agree to take a quota of refugees from Europe, during the next few years, with those who had caused the suffering to foot the bill. 

Russia combined. Peculiarly enough, the British had taken in more refugees than the United States. Among those who had escaped from behind the Iron Curtain were men who would die rather than renounce freedom. And now that they were on the sunny side of the Iran Curtain, many of them wandered homeless. 

Geltman, P.L., Brown, MJ. and Cochran, J., Lead poisoning among refugee children resettled in Massachusetts, 1995 to 1999, Pediatrics, 108, 158, 2001. 

It terrifies and angers me that we still don t have safe campgrounds or places to stay for the hundreds of refugees who are on the road right now in the Southwest in search of safe air. Some of these folks are desperate. Some of them are going to live and die in their cars. It is impossible for this to go on without a voice, a loud voice. 

Consequences of environmental stress poverty, food insecurity, poor health conditions, displacement (migration or refugee movements) and disruption of the social and political institutions are regarded as the most important consequences from environmental stress, which then contribute to conflict under a certain set of unfavorable factors. 

Military Activities Syndrome Environmental destruction through war and military action Loss of biodiversity due to chemical warfare agents, permanent soil degradation due to mining, contamination caused by fuels and explosives, health hazards, greater flows of refugees... 

As it turned out, the local chemical society in Montreal had scheduled Herman Mark as one of its monthly speakers, and there was a large turnout to hear him, both from industry and academe. Most of us had already heard about this "refugee" from war-torn Europe who had recently come to the New World, first to Canada and then to settle in Brooklyn, and we were very curious to meet him. 

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