Number 1 is the safety of Canada and Number 2 is to maintain our humanitarian tradition.

Sweden's system of leaves for criminals goes back more than 40 years, based on the nation's humanitarian tradition and the belief that such leaves allow a slow readjustment to normal life.

'We've got a special humanitarian tradition if the trapdoor sticks three times.'

Yet I have frequently been viciously abused by those fellow Jews who object when I ask Israel to cease betraying Judaism's historic humanitarian traditions.

The dispute over the Holocaust has shaken a Swiss self-image founded on what one official termed this week the "humanitarian traditions of Switzerland."

"We didn't know anyone there, but we knew that Geneva was the symbol of the humanitarian tradition," Mr. Huskic said.

In his homily, the Pope again paid homage to America's immigrant origins, and again warned against abandoning the humanitarian tradition that made them possible.

Europe, Mr President, is the land of asylum and the system must be protected if we are to keep up this humanitarian tradition.

Above all, we wish to point out that Europe is truly a land of asylum and that we must protect this humanitarian tradition.

Beyond Schengen, Europe has a very profound humanitarian and cultural tradition, this is a major political and humanitarian issue, and we cannot ignore the humanitarian dimension.