Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service
A proposal to settle the alien immigrant population of France in the French colonies of North Africa is put forward by M. Henri Michel, in an article in today’s “L’Ere Nouvelle”.
“The Government,” he writes, “is about to draft a program of colonial reorganization. Why not settle in our possessions in North Africa and in our colonies elsewhere, the overflowing tide of our immigration? Would that not be of double advantage to ourselves since Paris would be free from the terrible congestion brought about by the immigrants and our overseas colonies would reap the benefit of their labor? It is estimated that about 30,000 alien immigrants would be willing to settle in the French colonies without receiving any assistance from the State. But even this number could easily be increased by settling on the land the thousands of agricultural workers who left the soil because of the good wages offered in industry in the towns.”
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