Estou à procura de um conto, obviamente uma alegoria para o problema dos refugiados do pós-guerra,
A história é "DP!" por Jack Vance , publicado pela primeira vez em Leitor de Ficção Científica e Fantasia Avon , abril de 1953 , disponível em Arquivo da Internet . O termo" DP ", abreviação de " pessoa deslocada ", era comumente usado na época para se referir aos refugiados do pós-guerra.
em que os efeitos do bombardeio aéreo fazem com que uma raça anteriormente desconhecida de humanóides que vivem no subsolo seja forçada a emergir após a Segunda Guerra Mundial,
Os humanóides são chamados "troglodytes" ou "trogs". A razão para o surgimento deles parece não estar relacionada ao bombardeio aéreo:
"In our conversations with the trogs we have endeavored to ascertain the cause of the migration. Not one of the trogs makes himself completely clear on the subject, but we have been given to understand that the great caves which the race inhabited have been stricken by a volcanic convulsion and are being gradually filled with lava. If this be the case the trogs are soon to become literally 'displaced persons.'
onde eles são indefesos e indigentes.
"Sooner or later our organization will break down; more trogs will come up than it is within our power to feed. Organization already has failed to some extent. All the trogs are getting at least one meal a day, but not enough clothes, not enough shelter is being provided. Every day hundreds die from sunburn. I understand that the Old-Clothes-for-Trogs drive has nowhere hit its quota; I find it hard to comprehend. Is there no feeling of concern or sympathy for these people merely because they do not look like so many chorus boys and screen starlets?"
A humanidade discute inutilmente sobre como lidar com eles
New York, June 4: By a 35 to 20 vote—exactly reversing its first tally on the measure—the U. N. Assembly yesterday accepted the motion of Mexico's Hernandez to set up a committee for the purpose of recommending a percentage-wise distribution of trogs among member states.
Tabulation of voting on the measure found the Soviet bloc lined up with the United States and the British Commonwealth in opposition to the measure—presumably the countries which would be awarded the largest numbers of the trogs.
e eles morrem.
"I don't know why I should be sitting here writing this, because—since there are no more trogs—there is no more trog story. But I am seized by an irresistable urge to 'tell-off' a rotten, inhumane world . . ."