Brazil 100.000. Venezuela 80.000. Canada received 164.000 immigrants in 1952 and expects an equal number this year. Australia has been averaging 150.000 new settlers from Europe for several years. The Latin American countries are actively exploring ways in which they can expand the volume of immigration from the overpopulated countries of Europe. Nonetheless. European emigration is not yet at a satisfactory level. According to Mr. Hugh Gibson. Director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. total migration from Europe in 1953 will do little more than cancel out the annual natural increase in the surplus population. It will leave the core. which he estimates at 3 1/2 million. untouched. As the President has indicated. the problem has been complicated by the steady flow of refugees from behind the Iron Curtainpeople searching desperately for freedom who look to the free world for haven. In these circumstances. I am in full agreement with the President that we. as leaders of the free world. should make a special contribution to the solution of this problem.
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