The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-29

| labor, tcChnlclans, chemists, ana
engineers, who would be well
coined in almost unrestricted
numbers.
Certain quarters expressed
scepticiSm concerning the pos
sibility OF large scale postwar
immigration, saying that the
type OF worker most needed in
South America would also be
needed in Grape for recon
struction purposes. The type OF
immigrant most likely TO be
available, they said. such as
shopkeepcrs and city-dWellers,
is the very type with which
South America is already over
supplied, and unwilling to re-
ceive additional numbers
Highlights of the United
Press survey follow:
ARGENTINA - This country
is capable of absorbing a large
number of immigrants before
her 100000 so. miles become
over-populated but the govern
mcnt is strongly against any
postwar mass exodus from
abroad II views immigration
from a qualitative rather than
from a quantitative point of
view" The leaders of the June
4th revolt have indicated that
the matter may be studied
shortly and a definite policy
laid down, aiding those who
wish to settle in the Argentine
interior. II has been expressed
that Argentina is only one
fourth populated and could in
crease its population by another
30,000,000 people. Severe re-
Strictions, caused by the influx
OF political refugees during the
past 10 years, are now in eX-
iStcnce and Argentine consular
officials abroad submit each in
diVidual case TO the BuenoS
Aires government. Only those
fulfilling the requisites Of agri-
culturists, skilled labor or tech
nicians are accepted.
BRAZIL - DR.. Dulphe Pin
heiro Machado, member Of the
immigration and Colonization
Council, said that Brazil recent
~ enacted a new immigration
law aimed at smoothing the
tcchnicalitics concerning the
entry OF immigrants, specially
of those en- route 10 the interior.
Brazil offers subsidies, in the
form of machinery, free land
and technical advice TO rural
immigrants but no permisslonS
are issued for tradesmen, doc
tors, lawyers and city residents
in general unless they deposit
81 1000 in the Bank of Brazil TO
be invested in Me country's in
dustry, through one form or an
other. The only racial restric-
ton applied in Brazil is against
Japanese. DR.. Pinheiro Machado
believed that Brazil could re-
ceive around 100000 immi-
grants after the war, as a start
ing point to reach a popula-
ton Of 200,000,000 people.
VENEZUELA - The Caracas
government is eager TO take adj
vantage OF any postwar immi-
grafton and is studying a plan
to attract the cream of laborers,
specially skilled workers and
agriculturists. High officials
told the United Press that the
plan Will follow the recommen-
dations Of the recent Demo-
graphic Congress at Mexico
City. Venezuela is eager to re-
habilitate the agriculturally
rich interior OF the country
which has gone TO seed since the
oil boom OF 1911 which pulled
the labor 10 the coastal zones.
Venezuelan immigration laws
are relatively liberal, the only
limitations being white blood. a
physical capacity TO earn a liv-
ing and pro-democratic politi-
cal beliefs. Experts believe Ven
ezuela could absorb about 90.
100000 European immigrants
but in order not 10 weaken the
national complexion, $4,000 is
believed TO be the number gov
eminent authorities would al
low TO enter during a short post
war period.
COLOMBIA-No immigration
restrictions exist in Colombia.
although the government stud
les each application individual
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