EMIGRATION: More Elbowroom

The U.S., big, free and rich with opportunity, has always been a land to come to. Its emigrants could almost be counted on a few expatriate fingers. But out of San Francisco last week, on the Matson Line's Marine Phoenix, sailed a party of U.S. emigrants, bound for Australia. In the party were only 20 men (all ex-G.I.s who had been stationed in Australia), the Aussie war brides of twelve of them, and twelve children. But Australia hoped that many, many more U.S. veterans would follow this vanguard.

Japan had given Australia a...

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