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The events that unfolded in the skies above a rural field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, are told through exhibits at the new Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh — who reported from the site on 9/11 — revisits the scene of the tragedy, which has been transformed into a national monument.
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Some law enforcement agencies in the U.S. are finding it difficult to recruit new officers. One reason, they say, is that recent news coverage of police brutality is causing some potential recruits to think twice about applying for jobs. From Los Angeles, VOA's Elizabeth Lee reports.
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Probe of military labs expands to plague, encephalitisby LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its investigation into possible mishandling and improper shipment by Defense Department laboratories of organisms that cause deadly diseases, including plague and encephalitis.
Concerns about the handling of those samples led the Army to announce a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency says Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by war and sectarian tensions.
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Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by war and sectarian tensions, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday in a frank assessment that is at odds with Obama administration policy.
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Reports of the alleged troop buildup in Syria of a “Russian expeditionary force” to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, first appeared last month (August) in Israeli and Ukrainian online publications. The Kremlin denied these accounts, but seemingly halfheartedly (Kommersant, September 8). On September 4, speaking to journalists in Vladivostok after returning from a visit to Beijing, President Vladimir Putin announced he was working to form “an international coalition to fight ISIS [the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—more recently renamed the Islamic State, IS]” and has been discussing this over the phone with US President Barack Obama and Middle Eastern leaders. According to Putin, the Russian military command was involved in contacts to organize some cooperation “on the battlefield.” The Islamic State is the main enemy and not the al-Assad regime, Putin insisted, though agreeing that “some political changes in Syria are needed, possibly new parliamentary elections.” While the United States and its allies are bombing IS forces with little effect, according to Putin, Russia is “not yet” ready to join such actions. Moscow is sending al-Assad’s forces arms, munitions and equipment as well as providing training, “while considering other options,” but direct military involvement “is not yet on the table.” Putin several times repeated this “yet” and insisted: “We must act jointly to succeed. If we act unilaterally and quarrel about semi-democratic principles and procedures in these territories, we will end up deadlocked” (Kremlin.ru, September 4).
Last month, at a meeting in Doha, Qatar, with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Arab diplomats, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov promoted the so-called “Putin plan” for the Middle East: the forming of a broad-based international coalition to fight the Islamic State menace. Western and Arab countries that form the present anti-IS coalition must, according to Lavrov, join forces with Kurdish, Iraqi and Syrian government (al-Assad) troops; the Iranians, Hezbollah and Russia may also join. This all-inclusive anti-IS coalition would unite air forces (possibly including Russian) and ground troops. The “Putin plan” implies that the new broad anti-IS coalition must obtain a formal mandate from the United Nations Security Council. With Moscow on board, such a mandate could be forthcoming. In mid-September, Putin plans to address the UN General Assembly, in New York, to promote the anti-IS coalition. However, in Doha, last month’s pitch by Lavrov failed: Both Kerry and his Arab counterparts offered the Russian foreign minister the cold shoulder, since the “Putin plan” is clearly aimed at preserving the al-Assad regime (Kommersant, August 4).
The Kremlin seeks to preserve the al-Assad regime to guarantee continued Russian military and intelligence presence in Syria—the last foothold of a once massive Cold War deployment in the region. Russia has a naval supply base and garrison in Tartus, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. Russian instructors and military advisors are embedded with Syrian forces. In 1984, there were over 9,000 Russian (Soviet) service personnel in Syria—mostly anti-aircraft combat units. While fighting in Syria and Lebanon in the early 1980s, tens of Russian officers, including three generals, perished and hundreds were wounded, according to official Russian defense ministry sources (Militera.lib.ru, 2000).
Today, the Russian deployment in Syria is much smaller—hundreds of personnel—though it includes a combat unit in Tartus in the form of a marine company from Sevastopol. This past August, Moscow increased its shipments of weapons, supplies and munitions to al-Assad’s forces by sea and by air, mostly using an airbase near the coastal city of Latakia. The latest Russian arms shipments have reportedly included small arms, grenade launchers, trucks and Russia’s newest armored personnel carriers (APC)—the BTR-82A, which had been spotted in Syria. Washington has expressed concern: Kerry phoned Lavrov to warn that a Russian buildup of weapons and the reinforcement of al-Assad’s forces would promote more bloodshed, while possible unilateral Russian combat military deployments may risk possible armed clashes with the US-led coalition forces (Kommersant, September 10). The United States has reportedly asked Bulgaria and Greece to close their airspace to Russian overflights to Syria in an apparent attempt to stem military supplies arriving. Greece allowed the flights to continue, but Bulgaria effectively closed its airspace, reportedly demanding that Russian cargo jets land for inspection to prove they are indeed carrying “humanitarian supplies” (Interfax, September 9).
Without Bulgarian consent, the Greek okay is worthless, but Moscow may use an alternative route: over Iran and Iraq. Iran has announced it will allow Russian overflights to Syria. Russia can also use the sea route through the Bosporus, loading weapons and men on Black Sea Fleet land-assault ships, which the Turks cannot board to inspect (Interfax, September 9). Putin’s strategic objective, however, is not to bring several new APCs or other equipment to Syria; these would change little on the battlefield, where al-Assad’s forces are slowly, but surely losing. Putin wants the creation of an anti-IS “broad coalition” that could legitimate and secure President al-Assad. Moreover, Putin wants a broad understanding with Washington and the West: a revamped international antiterrorist coalition could defuse the confrontation over Ukraine, leading to sanctions relief and the eventual tacit recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and domination of the rest of Ukraine as part of the Russkiy Mir (the “Russian World”).
Many in the West seem ready to embrace “Putin’s plan.” Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has arrived in Moscow to meet his old friend Putin to promote a rapprochement between Russia and the West on the basis of jointly fighting the Islamic State. In this mission, Berlusconi reportedly has the support of the present Italian government (Kommersant, September 9). Former French president and leader of the Republican opposition party, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared: “Provoking a new cold war with Russia is a grave mistake. Moscow may help fight ISIS and find a solution in Syria. Putin must return to the G8 and there should be a dialogue” (Vzglad, September 10). To save al-Assad and find a new understanding with the West, Putin could possibly send several jets to join in attacking the Islamic State, but any ground-offensive combat mission in Syria would be unpopular in Russia and so less probable. Russian forces will almost certainly never again reach Cold War levels in Syria. The leaks about the coming massive Russian deployment to Syria could have been orchestrated by the Kremlin itself to blackmail the West into accepting “Putin’s plan” as an alternative to the purported threat of Russia going it alone and causing havoc.
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A study conducted by the Marine Corps to evaluate how female service members perform in combat operations concluded that women are more vulnerable to injury, less accurate with weapons, and slower than men when completing tactical movements.
According to the Washington Post, the research was conducted over nine months by evaluating troops in the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force developed to compare male and female service members as the Pentagon contemplates the full integration of women into combat roles.
The approximately 400 troops, a quarter of them female, were based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Twentynine Palms, California.
According to the research, female service members were injured twice as often as their male counterparts, demonstrated less accuracy with infantry weapons, were slower than men when completing tactical movements, and did not perform as well when removing injured troops from the battlefield.
Furthermore, male Marines who had no infantry training were more accurate in their use of firearms than female troops who had received such training.
Marine Col. Anne Weinberg, who serves as deputy director of the Marine Corps Force Innovation Office, labeled the research “unprecedented.”
“This is unprecedented research across the services,” Weinberg said. “What we tried to get to is what is that individual’s contribution to the collective unit. We all fight as units. … We’re more interested in how the Marine Corps fights as units and how that combat effectiveness is either advanced or degraded.”
The executive summary of the over 1,000-page report was released Thursday, and the full study is expected to be released online over the next few days.
This fall, services are required to submit recommendations to Defense Secretary Ash Carter as to whether specific positions in the military should remain closed to women, nearly three years after then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta scrapped a ban on women fulfilling combat roles.
The study’s findings come less than a month after two women became the first female soldiers to graduate from the Army’s Ranger School after the combat leadership course was opened up to women on a trial basis.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert recently said that the Navy is “on track” to open up its SEAL teams to women who pass the required grueling training course.
The post Women Injured Twice as Often as Men, Less Accurate with Weapons, Marine Study Findsappeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
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August was a turbulent month for the armed Islamic resistance movement in the North Caucasus, with the Russian security services carrying out multiple successful operations. According to an independent news source, the Kavkazsky Uzel website, over three dozen people may have been killed or wounded across the region in August alone. Among the rebels killed were the leaders of Khasavyurt and Makhachkala jamaats—Islam Muradov and Abdul Kurbanov, respectively (Kavkazsky Uzel, August 31). The multiple counterterrorist operations conducted across Dagestan irritated locals: for example, an operation carried out in the Lenin district of Makhachkala lasted three days. Given the accompanying multiple restrictions and ID checks, the residents of Makhachkala must have been put through a challenging trial.
The wave of counterterrorist operations has contributed to spreading the rumors that have appeared every year around this time since September 1, 2004, when militants seized a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan in an attack that killed hundreds of children and dozens of adults. The “Beslan syndrome,” in which parents are scared to allow their children go to school, has reoccurred each of the last 11 years, which has led to heightened security measures in the republics of the North Caucasus at this time of the year and raised the level of alarm and concern. Prior to the start of this school year, all government forces in Chechnya were on high alert, with police patrolling schools and the areas around them (Grozny.tv, August 31).
Military forces were deployed alongside police to ensure public safety, with military checkpoints set up on the streets of Grozny for the first time in years (Kavpolit.ru, August 28). According to residents of Chechnya, the heightened security could not have been tied to the start of the school year alone. People in the republic are increasingly talking about a group of militants comprised of those who fought in Syria. Chechnya’s ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, denied that government forces were searching for militants connected to the Islamic State around the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia (Aif.ru, August 21). However, rumors about attempts by militants to infiltrate Chechnya from Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge have only intensified, with some people citing anonymous sources in Pankisi itself, which is currently populated only by ethnic Chechens (Kavkasia.net, August 15). However, several sources in Pankisi independently confirmed to the author of this article that no one had heard anything about the arrival of militants from Syria. According to the author’s sources, it would be strange if militants from Syria arrived in Pankisi Gorge, given that the Georgian authorities detain even those people who discuss the conflict in Syria in social media. Yet, the tensions in Chechnya have not subsided.
The subject of the Islamic State has, unexpectedly, also become popular in Dagestan. Information from sources outside Russia suggested that the Islamic State carried out a successful attack on Russian military barracks in southern Dagestan (News.siteintelgroup.com, September 2). Unfortunately, those who spread reports about this supposed attack in Western media outlets (Longwarjournal.org, September 2) failed to notice that in Dagestan’s Magaramkent district, where the attack purportedly took place, no military barracks exist apart from a border guards outpost (Kavkazsky Uzel, September 3). The Lezgin village of Magaramkent, with a population of 7,000, is located close to the border, and even a handgun shot aimed at the border guards could not have gone unnoticed. Also, there are no barracks in the village.
The reports about the attack in Dagestan were part of the Islamic State’s propaganda and aimed at demonstrating successes in the North Caucasus that have not occurred. The Islamic State apparently cannot grasp that over the past year, the militants of the former Caucasus Emirate have repeatedly asked to join Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s group, but have been unable to do anything other than hide from the Russian security services. The Islamic State’s label is not granted to anyone who wishes to have it. The presence of Chechens like Umar Shishani among the top leaders of the Islamic State must have helped the North Caucasian militants to secure Islamic State backing. The reports of the attack on the non-existent military barracks in the village of Magaramkent were meant to show the viability of the North Caucasian branch of the Islamic State. In reality, however, these reports betrayed the weakness of the Islamic State in this area. The made-up attack indicated that the militants in the North Caucasus who are affiliated with the Islamic State have nothing to brag about and are simply trying to fool their bosses in the Middle East.
Since the commanders of the former Caucasus Emirate started joining the Islamic State at the end of 2014 (Kavkazsky Uzel, December 20, 2014), they have failed to demonstrate any tangible successes of the Islamic State in the North Caucasus. However, that does not mean that the North Caucasian militants cannot succeed in the future. Now, following the fake reports about the attack on the military barracks, the North Caucasian militants will be expected to organize an actual attack to repair their tarnished reputation.
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The Second World Congress of Crimean Tatars (Butun Dunya Qirim Kongresi—BDQK) took place in Ankara, Turkey, from July 31 to August 2. Among the 600 participants, 410 were registered delegates representing 184 Crimean Tatar organizations from twelve different countries: Ukraine, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Romania, Poland, France, Russia, Canada and the United States (Krymr.com, August 31).
Since the majority of the Crimean Tatar leadership loyal to Kyiv, including Mustafa Cemilev and Refat Chubarov, have been declared persona non grata in Crimea and barred from entering the peninsula (Lpravda.com, July 8, 2014), they arrived in Ankara from Kyiv. Also, some groups of activists arrived from Lviv and other regions of Ukraine. There were no representatives from Crimea itself, because the Crimean government declined the travel requests of five former Mejlis activists and placed other Mejlis loyalists who still live in Crimea under close supervision (Obozrevatel.com, July 29).
Among the Ukrainian guests, Pavlo Klimkin, the country’s minister of foreign affairs, who came to the Congress on behalf of President Petro Poroshenko, delivered a powerful message to the audience, stating that the all the former heads of state of Ukraine should apologize to Crimean Tatars for not resolving their crucial issues within the past two decades. According to Poroshenko’s road map, Foreign Minister Klimkin asserted, once Crimea is reunified with Ukraine, Crimean Tatars will be given national-territorial autonomy within the framework of Ukraine (Nv.ua, August 1).
The July 31–August 2 Congress was held in Ankara due to the fact that there are approximately 200 diaspora organizations in Turkey who view Mustafa Cemilev as their “legendary leader” and circle around him as if he were the “totem pole” of the Crimean Tatar nation. These 200 or so organizations were, in fact, the ones that insisted the Congress should take place in Ankara, and they were willing to organize and also put up the bill for all the event’s expenses. Moreover, Cemilev has good relations with the Turkish head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In June 2015, President Erdoğan handed a 20-page expert report on the civil and cultural rights violations of Crimean Tatars to his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin (Dunyabulteni.net, June 20; see EDM, June 25). Moreover, during their meeting in Azerbaijan, Erdoğan told Putin that Turks will always support their Crimean Tatar brethren (Al Jazeera, June 15).
Erdoğan himself could not attend the Crimean Tatar Congress, because he was on a visit to Indonesia. However, he sent his own representatives to the Congress, including then–Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security Faruk Çelik as well as the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Meral Akşener, with a loud and clear message: “Turkey never recognized Crimea’s occupation by Russia and we will never recognize it” (Aydinlikgazete.com, August 10). In fact, as soon as he returned to Turkey, President Erdoğan invited Cemilev, Chubarov and their two associates to his residence and had a private meeting with them for approximately an hour and a half (Qha.com.ua, August 3).
Undoubtedly, Ankara’s selection as the site for the Congress agitated the occupying Russian political elite of Crimea. Ironically, Natalya Poklonskaya, Crimea’s general prosecutor, who labeled the elites of the Crimean Tatar leadership as extremists and banned their entry to the annexed peninsula, argued that Crimea’s problems should have been discussed internally in Crimea and not in Ankara: “we do not discuss Africa’s problems in Crimea as Africa’s crisis should be discussed in Africa,” she explained (Radikal.com.tr, August 2). Ruslan Balbec, the deputy prime minister of Crimea, described the BDQK as “Cemilev’s Congress” and stated that the topics discussed in Ankara do not reflect the real problems of Crimean Tatars who live in Crimea (RIA Novosti, August 1). Similarly, earlier this year, the chairman of the Crimean State Committee for International Relations and Deported Citizens, Zaur Smirnov, tried to discredit the Congress by claiming that Fethullah Gülen—a US-backed Turkish preacher and a long-time nemesis of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—was secretly sponsoring the BDQK in order to spoil Turkish-Russian relations (Krymedia.ru, April 16).
All at once, an interesting topic was served on a silver platter to those looking for a reason to denounce the Congress when Cemilev and Klimkin discussed the future possibility of establishing a Muslim Battalion within the Ukrainian army (Krymr.com, September 31). This proposed battalion, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, would consist of contractual volunteers within the framework of the Ukrainian Ground Forces (Yeniasya.com.tr, August 1). It would be deployed as a border control force in the Kherson region, a zone that separates Crimea from the rest of mainland Ukraine, to monitor the passage of goods and people between the two territories (Islahhaber.net, November 14, 2014).
The Russian media immediately claimed that the Muslim Battalion consists of Muslim fighters from the Islamic State, which is purportedly already in existence in Ukraine. The same sources also alleged that Turkey was the financial supporter of this Muslim Battalion (RIA Novosti, August 2).
In fact, at this juncture, such a Battalion does not exist. If and when it is formed, according to Cemilev, the Battalion will consist of 1,000 troops. Forms to register to join this particular unit will be provided at the military registration offices all over Ukraine. Although it will consist of mostly of Crimean Tatars, others from different ethnic backgrounds from the Caucasus and Central Asia will also be allowed to join (Qha.com.ua, July 11). According to a reliable source, so far only 50 Crimean Tatars submitted their applications for consideration (Author’s interview, September 9).
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Officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria said some 2,000 Syrians have arrived in the Caucasian territory and are seeking asylum.
The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany have defended the Iran nuclear deal agreed in July between Iran and major powers in a Washington Post editorial as the debate in the U.S. Congress heats up.
Russian soldiers have joined the ground war in Syria. More Russian supplies are being rushed to Syria to prop the weakening regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Greater Russian involvement will prolong the war in Syria, warns US Secretary of State John Kerry. Russia is reported to be planning to strengthen a Syrian naval base at Tartous.
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An initial report on a British Airways plane which caught fire at a Las Vegas airport suggests parts of the engine flew out and landed on the runway.
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General Assembly Vote Lets Palestinians Fly Flag at UN Headquarters
New York Times UNITED NATIONS — Palestinians overwhelmingly won the right on Thursday to fly their national flag in front of United Nations headquarters, a symbol of statehood and legitimacy that angered Israel and the United States. The change was made by the ... Palestinian Flag Allowed to Fly at UNWall Street Journal Palestine flag to fly over UN headquartersTelegraph.co.uk UN Strongly Approves Palestinian Proposal to Raise FlagABC News Haaretz -Jerusalem Post Israel News all 124 news articles » |
The common currency and the Schengen zone, both central to the European Union’s success, are proving to be equally difficult to master in a crisis.
Floodwaters broke through an embankment and swamped a city near Tokyo, washing away houses, forcing dozens of people to rooftops to await helicopter rescues and leaving one man clinging for his life to a utility pole.
Despite opposition from Israel and the U.S, the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to allow the Palestinian flag to fly alongside those of the 193 member states at the U.N.’s New York headquarters.
Victory for Barack Obama as he secures backing of enough Democrats in the senate to prevent Republicans blocking nuclear deal
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Violence erupts as Turkish police stop pro-Kurdish politicians marching with at least 20 dead
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Cyber Hacking Likely to Grow in Frequency, Sophisticationby webdesk@voanews.com (Doug Bernard)
The lines between cybercrime and espionage are blurring, and unless the United States takes the lead in establishing international norms of online behavior, the frequency and sophistication of cyber hacking attacks will increase, according to leaders of the U.S. intelligence community. The directors of the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies, speaking before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington, addressed the “cyber challenges” facing the United States and the...
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Facing Protests in London, Netanyahu Warns Mideast Is 'Disintegrating' by webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)
Protests have continued in London against the visit of Israel’s prime minister. Demonstrators said Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes against the Palestinian people. But speaking before talks with his British host, Netanyahu warned that the Middle East was "disintegrating." VOA's Henry Ridgwell reports.
Los Angeles Police Force Finding It More Difficult to Recruitby webdesk@voanews.com (Elizabeth Lee)
Some law enforcement agencies in the U.S. are finding it difficult to recruit new officers. One reason, they say, is that recent news coverage of police brutality is causing some potential recruits to think twice about applying for jobs. From Los Angeles, VOA's Elizabeth Lee reports.
Protests have continued in London against the visit of Israel’s prime minister. Demonstrators said Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes against the Palestinian people. But speaking before talks with his British host, Netanyahu warned that the Middle East was "disintegrating." VOA's Henry Ridgwell reports.
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This week, Europe’s migrant crisis appears to have reached what may be a turning point for the tens of thousands of displaced people currently making their way to and across the continent. On Tuesday, Germany said it could potentially take up to half million people, and images spread of its citizens welcoming migrants. On Wednesday, the president of the European Commission asked E.U. nations to agree to share responsibility for 160,000 refugees. And, on Thursday, President Obamasaid he hopes to let 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in the next year.
The current migrant crisis is Europe’s worst since World War II—and the struggle to find places for migrants and refugees is just one more similarity with that earlier crisis. Just as the current migrant challenge has been bubbling up some time, it also took many years for the League of Nations-era world to find places for the refugees of the 1930s and ’40s.
The first concerted effort to find homes for those displaced by Nazi aggression came in July of 1938, when 32 nations sent representatives to Evian, France, on the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Germany had just recently annexed Austria, and it was obvious to all involved that many thousands of people—primarily Jews—would soon need new homes, if they did not already. As TIME noted that month, the conference got off to a bad start: though the opening speeches were lofty, it took a full two days to elect a president of the conference, as each attendee feared that his name would be thus linked with what would likely be failed attempt to solve the problem.
“All nations present expressed sympathy for the refugees but few offered to allow them within their boundaries,” TIME reported near the beginning of the conference. “Britain, France, Belgium pleaded that they had already absorbed their capacity, Australia turned in a flat ‘No’ to Jews, and the U. S. announced that she would combine her former annual Austrian immigration quota with her German to admit 27,370 persons (who can support themselves) from Greater Germany next year.”
The conference became mired in questions like whether the refugee effort should be associated with the existing League of Nations, and whether the answers arrived at would apply to any refugees in the future or just to those coming from Germany.
By the time the conference adjourned, the 32 nations had set up an intergovernmental refugee committee, which would begin its work that August in London. At the time, however, the organization was seen as a screen that would allow the attendees to look like they had accomplished something:
At Evian last week the British slammed the door of Palestine against any larger admissions of Jewish refugees, intimated cautiously that a few might be welcomed in Kenya, “but no mass migration.” Definitely the Evian Conference failed to discover any lands willing at this moment to accept the bulk of Europe’s frantic, hard-pressed political refugees, although Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Canada opened the door to refugee agricultural workers. The face-saving Refugee Organization created last week seemed destined to engage in endless bickering with Germany, chiefly on the issue of whether or not expelled Jews ought to be permitted to take most of their property with them when forced to emigrate. At present, under various pretexts, they are plucked practically as clean as a dressed fowl before they are let out of the Reich.
Nearly a decade would pass before the foundation of the International Refugee Organization, which was then replaced in 1951 by the U.N.’s refugee commission.
Read the full story from 1938 at the conclusion of the conference, here in the TIME Vault: “Happy Augury”
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SKHIRAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Libya's warring factions began a round of U.N.-backed negotiations on Thursday in an attempt to end their conflict, with the U.N. envoy telling factions they must reach a final deal by Sept. 20.
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Over Israeli and American objections, the General Assembly approved a symbolic measure that allows the flag of Palestine to fly at the United Nations.
A measure to derail the Iran nuclear deal has been blocked in the US Senate, securing a major foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama.
Puerto Rico tutoring agency charged in nearly $1M federal fraud case
New York state OKs $15 minimum wage for fast-food employees; to be phased in for 200K workers
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Sheriff releases video of struggle with inmate who died; deputies will not be charged
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Carter orders reminder of need for 'unvarnished' intelligence assessments of war progress
Bobby Jindal is going on a name-calling spree against Donald Trump.
The crisis, including the downgrading of Brazil’s credit rating to junk status, is unleashing a withering exploration of how the country squandered its hard-won success.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- A video released Thursday shows a prolonged struggle between a naked, mentally ill inmate and five deputies in biohazard suits who shocked her four times with a stun gun before she lost consciousness....
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As Russia appears to beef up its presence in the war-torn country, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell explains what the United States and NATO can do
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