Conference and Sub-Committees The Conference Honorary President: Henry Bérenger (France) President: Myron C. Taylor (US) Secretary General: Jean-Louis Paul-Boncour (League of Nations) Five public meetings Wednesday, [...]
Efforts on Refugees’ Behalf International aid organizations have years of experience assisting refugees or specific refugee groups. Because groups such as the Quakers, which had a Vienna Center, are active on the ground, they have [...]
Australia In January 1938 Australia celebrates the 150th anniversary of the landing of the “first fleet,” which brought British convicts to Australia. Since then, people of British and Irish heritage have constituted the vast [...]
Australia Onlookers watch the reenactment of the landing of the “first fleet” in Farm Cove, January 26, [...]
Australia * 26 April 1888 North Melbourne † 13 October 1957 South Yarra White joins the Australian armed forces in 1911. An aviator, he spends time as a prisoner of war in Ottoman captivity during World War I. His [...]
Australia Earle Page, Australia’s deputy prime minister, to the general secretariat of the International Refugee Conference, July 5, [...]
Australia Earle Page, Australia’s deputy prime minister, to the general secretariat of the International Refugee Conference, July 5, [...]
Australia * 8 September 1902 Melbourne † 3 July 1981 East Melbourne In 1927, after attending the prestigious Scotch College and studying at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, Stirling joins the law firm of the [...]