Jag letar efter en kort historia, uppenbarligen en allegori för problemet efter kriget,
Historien är "DP!" av Jack Vance , först publicerad i Avon Science Fiction och Fantasy Reader , april 1953 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv . Termen" DP ", kort för " fördrivna person ", användes allmänt vid tiden för att hänvisa till efterkrigsflyktingarna.
där effekterna av luftbombning orsakar en tidigare okänd ras av underjordiska humanoider som tvingas till ytan efter andra världskriget
Humanoiderna kallas "troglodytes" eller "trogs". Anledningen till deras framkomst verkar inte vara relaterad till flygbombning:
"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.'
där de är hjälplösa och ömtåliga.
"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?"
Människan diskuterar ineffektivt om hur man hanterar dem
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.
och de dör bort.
"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 . . ."