Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN THE NEAB EAST AS AFFECTING EMIGRATION" FROM AMERICA Questions of emigration as affected by the political situation in Greece and Turkey depend on the -solution of the Eastern Question. If conditions in the Near East are pacified and settled, if Greece realizes her national aspirations by gathering together under her fold her children scattered in Western Asia Minor, Thrace and the islands under Italian occupation and a strong, righteous government is established in what remains as Turkey, there will be wider openings and many new fields for enterprise in the Near East, and many Greeks in America will go back, especially those who had come to America to escape Turkish oppression or military enslavement. Others will return for relatives. The percentage, however, of those who return will not be great. C Inquiries in many cities and of various individuals indicate that those settled in America, and prospering, will not easily give up certainty for uncertainty) Besides those accustomed to American ways, ideas and customs are disappointed on setting foot in the old country and finding their dreams of ease and comfort there far from reality, and take the first steamer back to the United States. Soon after the declaration of the Armistice, there was a rush to return of those who had been waiting for years to see their relatives and friends, especially those who had not heard from them, and were anxious to learn their whereabouts. POLITICAL CONDITIONS AS IM VITING T7NKEST IN AMEBICA Political conditions in the Near East and unrest in America.—Ordinarily conditions in Greece or Turkey would scarcely affect any situation in Amer- ica. But these are extraordinary times and there is a great deal of speculation as to possible combinations between the Yo...