Book Reviews and Notices : Arab Refugees: A Survey of Resettlement Possibilities. By S. G. THICK- NESSE. (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1950. Pp. viii, 68. $1.)

• Author: Arthur L. Bach
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400138
• Date: 01 March 1951
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

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intentions) have gone to Greece and remained there for one or two
months to study the situation. In most cases, they swallowed the statis-
tics and other information given to them by Greek government officials,
and finally departed leaving behind them an orphan-report that sooner or
later found a place-and perhaps rightfully so-in a bureaucratic pigeon-
hole, if not in a wastebasket somewhere in one of the forty,odd Greek
ministries.
The situation in Greece today does not indicate that the ILO report
had a better fate. One of the interesting parts of the book is the Ap.
pendix, containing the observations of the Greek government. In forty,
three pages full of glittering generalities and evasive answers to the rec-
ommendations of the mission, the Greek officials took pains to prove that
everything is going, or will go, very well; and that, in certain cases, the
government has already brought about the changes suggested by the
mission. This does not necessarily mean that there is any improvement
in the situation: changes in the statute books mean very little in Greece.
ALEX PALAMIOTIS.
University of Utah.
Arab Refugees: A Survey of Resettlement Possibilities. By S. G. THICK-
NESSE. (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1950. Pp.
viii, 68. $1.)
The problem of the Arabs and Jews in Palestine dates from the first
World War, when Great Britain obtained a mandate over this territory.
A
solution to the land problems of these two ethnic groups by the British
was not forthcoming, and in 1947 the General Assembly of the United
Nations partitioned the region into Arab and Jewish states, with an inter-
national enclave for Jerusalem.
Neither the Arab nor the Jew approved of the settlement, and fighting
developed. Owing to better equipment, organization, and morale, the
Jewish minority defeated the Arab majority. Much property damage
resulted, and 713,000 Arabs were stranded and homeless.
Only an estimated 8,000 of the Arab refugees are economically self,
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