From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, governments pondered ways & means of increasing both industrial and agricultural output. Most of Latin America's machines are imported. Argentina excepted, Latin America imports a healthy chunk of its food supplychief items: wheat, corn and beef. One way out of the deficiency: increase the number of skilled workers by selective immigration.
In Rio last week, Immigration Council Chairman Joāo Alberto Lins de Barros announced that Brazil was ready to take 100,000 displaced persons from Europe. Joāo Alberto had been working on the plan for months, had just visited both the U.S. and the refugee...