GERMANY: Exodoi

Hate, naked and unashamed, stalked through Poland and Germany. By order of the Polish Government, 15,000 German families were arbitrarily deported for the sole reason that in 1921 they had fearlessly voted in a plebiscite to remain German citizens. By order of the German Government, 12,000 Polish families were likewise arbitrarily deported as a reprisal. In two days of last week the exodoi were completed.

In the old world the brutal oppression exercised by Byzantines, Tartars, Turks was, from the nature of the times, understandable enough. That the fierce hatred of the Greeks...

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