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Hemingway on the plight of political refugees.
"As I see it the principal difficulty is that a political refugee now cannot enter legally since he must make an escape from his own country therefore his is always liable for illegal entry and you’ve got to find a legal way to pass him on somewhere else or provide for asylum of political refugees. Otherwise you are simply going to publicize an endless series of deportations which is o.k. if anybody wants martyrs but god damned impractical as tactics."
Hemingway responds to Abner Green, who was an activist and secretary for the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. Green asked Hemingway to take up the cause of political refugees who were being denied asylum in the United States and Hemingway asks if he should "write an Esquire piece on the murder of sending people guilty of political offenses back to Fascist countries and advocating some provisions for the right of asylum for political refugees. It is a subject I can write a good piece on. In that case please give me list of cases and their disposition. Also information as to what countries would accept Richter for instance if he were deported to another country other than Germany..." Otto Richter was a 21-year old German Jew who had fled Nazi Germany to the United States in 1933. The New York Times published on 2 June 1936 (two weeks before Hemingway's letter) that "the U.S. Department of Labor rejected yesterday the petition of Otto Richter, 21-year-old German citizen, to go to Canada to obtain legal re-entry into the United States, and ordered him to report to Ellis Island for deportation [to Germany] on June 23." Ultimately, it was reported that Richter was deported to neutral Belgium after significant pressure from advocacy groups.
"As I see it the principal difficulty is that a political refugee now cannot enter legally since he must make an escape from his own country therefore his is always liable for illegal entry and you’ve got to find a legal way to pass him on somewhere else or provide for asylum of political refugees. Otherwise you are simply going to publicize an endless series of deportations which is o.k. if anybody wants martyrs but god damned impractical as tactics."
Hemingway responds to Abner Green, who was an activist and secretary for the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. Green asked Hemingway to take up the cause of political refugees who were being denied asylum in the United States and Hemingway asks if he should "write an Esquire piece on the murder of sending people guilty of political offenses back to Fascist countries and advocating some provisions for the right of asylum for political refugees. It is a subject I can write a good piece on. In that case please give me list of cases and their disposition. Also information as to what countries would accept Richter for instance if he were deported to another country other than Germany..." Otto Richter was a 21-year old German Jew who had fled Nazi Germany to the United States in 1933. The New York Times published on 2 June 1936 (two weeks before Hemingway's letter) that "the U.S. Department of Labor rejected yesterday the petition of Otto Richter, 21-year-old German citizen, to go to Canada to obtain legal re-entry into the United States, and ordered him to report to Ellis Island for deportation [to Germany] on June 23." Ultimately, it was reported that Richter was deported to neutral Belgium after significant pressure from advocacy groups.