SOUTH AMERICAN PLANS FOR IMMIGRATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5312, 27 January 1947, Page 2

SOUTH AMERICAN PLANS FOR IMMIGRATION

VATICAN KBBN TO REINSTATE DISP.LA.CEO CATHOLICS. : i * "Several South American States are already/ taking active steps to bring large numbers of immigrants from Europe, reports The Times. '"The Argentinian Government intends sending a special minister to iRome to supervise the selection of some 4,000,000. Europeans >vho will be transhipped-to the Argentine atthe rate of 30,000 a month. "Brazil and Yenezuela already have : established organisations a'broad for the' same pucrpose. Brazil proposed absoribing 12,000- immigrants a year, and Venezuela wants 10,000 families or some 30,000- to 40,000 persons. "The Vatican is reported to be interested in all three movements, and has been studying measures to relieve many thousands of Catholics among 1,000,-000 displaced persons facing an uncertain future in Central !Eiuropean countries. British shipping companies are reported to be- anxious to pariicipate in these large-scale transfers but they . are ihandicapped by a shortage of suitable tonnage. The Royal Ma^ Line's Highland Chieftain now on her way to SoUt-h America will have all her accomm'odation fully occupied, but her. two sister ships, the Highland Princess and the Highland Brigade, both of which visited New Zealand as troopers, are not expected to be reconverted and repaired until the middle of next year. Of the other two large British liners built for the South American trade, the Andes is still cequisitioned as a transport and the Alcantara is still in process of derequistioning. "It is anticipated that the trans-por-tation of the hundreds of thousands >f European immigrants required -by South American States will ocoupy many years."