EMPIRE MIGRATION

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 9

EMPIRE MIGRATION

COMMITTEE'S REPORT FURTHER REVIVAL EXPECTED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 7. The Interdepartmental Committe* on Migration Policy, under the chair, manship of Mr Malcolm MacDonald, expresses confidence in a report now, published that the conditions which led to the former migrations from the United Kingdom to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will recur, although perhaps in altered form, and that the volume of immigration may bo as great as in the past. But the idea that mi. gration can of itself promote economio recovery is characterised as a- fallacy.' On the contrary, migration, it is stated, is one of the products of recovery, and the best method of pro, meting it is to bring about those con. ditious by such means as raising the level of inter-imperial trade which would attract migration. Under the existing conditions, the committee states, the encouragement of any considerable scheme of migra. tion is out of the question, and the United Kingdom should only assist migration when conditions are favourable to satisfactory settlement and when the overseas Governments are prepared to receive migrants and join in the arrangements necessary to give them a real prospect of success. It recognised that a spontaneous movement of people will in due course revive, and that in the meantime no organised transfer of population will be of much use.