NONE of the tragedies of after-the-war is more terrible than that of the Armenians, that luckless people who have for generations been the victims of Turkish persecution, and who suffered still more by relying upon the promises of protection so copiously issued by Allied statesmen during and after the war. They are a nation of refugees, living in misery in temporary camps in Syria, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The League of Nations has devised a scheme for settling on the land the 86,000 in Syria, who constitute the most pressing problem; it is to help to raise the money required for this purpose that the British Government has nominated the Lord Mayor's Fund, for which Lord Hugh Cecil will appeal tonight.
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