Turkey in Europe. and Turkey in Asia. Under the 5 per cent plan the bill would admit of those nationalities during the next fiscal year in round numbers 255.000. As a matter of fact. during the five prewar years the average number admitted was 738.000. in other words. the operation of the 5 per cent plan would reduce the immigration from southern and eastern Europe twothirds in volume from what it was at the breaking out of the European war. It Seemed to the committee that that would be all the reduction that would be necessary to protect our country under the most extreme circumstances. On the other hand. it would not affect the immigration coming from northern and western Europe. for the reason that the population in the United States in 1910 coming from Belgium. Denmark. France.
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