IMMIGRATION BARRIERS
LOWERING URGED
PLEA BY FORMER CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER
(Received November 14, 9.30 p.m.) CLEVELAND, November 13.
A former Prime Minister of Canada, Mr A. Meighen, in an address, declared that the barriers against immigration must be lowered for the sake of world peace. "We people possessing the world's richest and widest territories, which are comparatively thinly populated, can hardly expect the world to remain at peace if we stand on our own shores and forbid all others to come there," he said. "There is a lot to be said for this policy from our own immediate standpoint, but can it be continued compatible with our expectations of peace?" He opposed, however, the return of the former German colonies, as these were essential to the security of the British Empire, "especially since Great Britain is now no longer, in the same sense as she was formerly, mistress of the seas."
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22250, 15 November 1937, Page 3
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