Germany, the Irish Free State, Sweden and Norway will suffer most, while Great Britain and Northern Ireland will benefit through the immigration quotas which will be effective July 1 under the national origins system, according to the text of President Hoover’s proclamation, putting the new system in force, just made public at the State Department.
The following table shows the principal changes in the number of immigrants to be admitted annually as compared with the present quotas which will be discarded on June 30:
Nat.
origins Pres.
quota quota
Austria 1,413 785
Belgium 1,301 512
Czecho-Slovakia 2,874 3,073
Danzig, Free City of 100 228
Denmark 1,181 2,789
Finland 509 471
France 3,086 3,954
Great Britain and Northern
Ireland 65,721 34,007
Greece 307 100
Hungary 869 473
Irish Free State 17,853 28,567
Italy 5,802 3,842
Latvia 236 132
Netherlands 3,153 1,648
Norway 2,377 6,453
Poland 6,524 5,928
Portugal 440 503
Roumania 295 630
Russia (European and Asiatic) 2,784 2,248
Spain 252 131
Sweden 3,314 9,561
Switzerland 1,707 2,801
Turkey 226 100
Yugoslavia 845 671
The provisions of the immigration act of 1924 which had been postponed from going into effect, were approved by the Senate last week against the expressed desire of President Hoover, who opposed the national origins system in his acceptance speech during the Presidential campaign and in later statements.
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