University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 7, 1952
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France Makes Graduate Offers
The French government is offering 40 teaching assistantships, a limited number of lecturers and "35 graduate fellowships to American graduate students who are unmarried, preferably under 35 years of age, who have a good academic record and a bachelor's degree.
The teaching assistantships involve teaching conversational English about 12 hours a week in French secondary schools and teacher training institutions.
The applicant must have a good knowledge of French and correct usage of the English language. Attached to all applications will be a form which must be filled out in French.
Application forms are available at the German department office, 304 Fraser hall, and must be in the New York office of the Institute of International Education by Friday, Feb. 15.
The lectorates are similar to the teaching assistantships with the lecturer usually receiving higher pay
French Club To Hold Festival Of Kings
The French club, Cercle Francais, will observe the festival of the kings, or twelfth night, with a dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the English room of the Union building.
The festival of the kings commemorates the visit by the three Wise Men to Bethlehem 12 days after the birth of Christ.
A special cake containing a little figure inside it will be served as the person getting the piece with the person in it will be the king of the feast.
The little figure to be used in the cake has been sent from France in order that the French festival custom can be followed as nearly as possible.
The fellowships are open to graduate students in all fields of study. In the field of medicine candidates must have the doctor of medicine degree.
and having a lighter teaching schedule.
Jayhawkern basketball team coached by Phog Allen have won 14 conference titles and tied for seven others.
World Has 30 To 60 Million Refugees Today
There are in the world today between 30 and 60 million refugees, population experts estimate.
Early in the 1930's, Japan marched into Manchuria, touching off a period of strife for China that has displaced as many as 50 million people, with the end not yet in sight. The buildup of Nazism and Fascism and the Spanish civil war, in the 1930's, put European masses to flight.
"Nansen passports," named for a pioneering League of Nations statesman, were familiar at the borders of
Many are searching for new homes. In a world of uprooted peoples, the part three decades constitute an age of great migrations.
The homeless and the hunted have moved—and are moving—across continents and seas, the National Geographic society says. They Include victims of war, political persecution, natural catastrophes, and overcrowded lands.
The phenomenon of "statelessness" assumed large proportions in the wake of World War I. More than a million White Russians and Armenians became refugees. Greece and Turkey exchanged other millions.
Europe. They marked an effort by the League to provide legal status for people of lost nationality.
World War II displaced 10 for every one person left homeless before in Europe. When it was over, entire racial, religious, and national groups had been uprooted and moved, many for slave labor.
In the first two years after the war, about seven million went home again. But since 1947, the International Refugee organization, which went out of existence on Dec. 31, 1951, has been responsible for welfare of more than a million other DP's and refugees who could not go home. Many have been sent instead to Canada, the United States, the countries of Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and many nations of Western Europe. The U. S. has taken nearly 300,000.
More than 12 million Hindus and Moslems took part in one of history's greatest population exchanges following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Other millions have been made homeless by the Korean war. A steady stream of refugees still pours through cracks in the Iron Curtain.
When a family of three Kalmucks landed in New York recently on a refugee ship, a footnote was written to the history of a people who have been displaced persons for 700 years. As horsemen under Genghis Khan, Kalmucks first moved west across Asia. Others came in the 1600's. Wandering through the centuries, virtually the only group left today west of the Iron Curtain are some 700 in DP camps in Germany, soon to come to this country. The rest have disappeared, somewhere in Russia.
Mennonite farmers from Europe and Canada have followed a mass migration since the war, going to the swampy wilderness of the Paraguayan Chaco. Moving because of war or overcrowding, they have established colonies where men have never succeeded before.
Even in the lonely Pacific, there have been migrations. The inhabitants of Bikini Atoll were moved, with all their belongings, to another island to make way for the atom bomb experiments in 46. They were victims not of war, but of a test of war.