As far as my country is concerned. we. therefore. have been addressing ourselves to what I will call a triple problem. The first is the problem of getting more pepole. When I was a very small boy there was much talk in Australia. about American immigration. about the. vast class of people who came to this continent from the Old World. It is only. recently that I began to have a look at that matter in statistical terms. and I would like you to know that at the present time our immigration program in Australia is at least as great as any undertaken by your country in the whole course of its history. You must remember that we are a community of 8.000.009 people. You might think we are more. because occasionally we make quite a bit of noise. but we are a community of 8.000.000 people. We are now taking in year after year 200.000 immigrants from the Old World which. after all. is. if one may venture on a proportion sum. just as if you were undertaking now to bring in with your vast population the better part of four millions every year. Two hundred thousand immigrants coming into a community of 8.000.000. And that presents us. of course. with tremendous problems. But we have accepted those problems because we believe that the time is overdue when all of the countries that love freedom should determine to develop their strength and not to float along and fail to develop their strength.
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