SCOPE OF MIGRATION
The policy of promoting merely Empire migration gives rise to many doubts, says the Spectator. So far as the immigrants are to come from the British Isles, they will be precisely of the type of the young skilled worker, of which there is a lack rather than a surplus at the present time; while population statistics show conclusively that over the next 100 years Great Britain will be in no sense overpopulated, with a surplus of young men and women to spare for the dominions or colonies. It is not Great Britain which suffers from the pressure of over-population; on the other hand, there are countries in which it is so severe, for various reasons, that it is one of the most effective causes of war. There are also countries, like Germany, from which men and women are being driven out who would make the best possible kind of immigrants into the dominions. So far as we encourage a rigidly exclusive policy of Empire migration we shall be only provoking the dangers we wish to avoid.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 7
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