AIHERICAN PEOPLE
MIXTURE OF RACES ••America is a land of ninny peoples' and licw President Roosevelt has contrived to carry America with b;m. step by step is more than a mat'or for wonder. According to the census of 19.30 the United States contained 1'.1.MM.-HHt persons of foreign bijth. Of these the largest single group, the Italian-, numbered i.7!)(U)!M; tiio next largest, the Hermans. l.fJOS.OOO: the emigrants from Great Britain and Northern Ireland f,l2h\f)oo; the Canadians 1,'278,000; and the Poles 1.2(j8 r f)(!0. Tliose i)orn in what is now Eire came far to the ■•ear. with only 715.()(){>. A ] ;I rge proportion of the Canadians were, of course. French-Canadians. Beyond iliese foreign-born lay a still larger body of people whose parents or grandparents were foreign bom, and who felt some tie with [he ancient motherland/'—From 'The World Today.' by Professor A. Xevins.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 52, 13 May 1942, Page 2
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