EMPIRE MIGRATION
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The admirable article by Mr. Hodson on Empire Migration in your issue of August 5th brings out the fact that the United Kingdom has now become an immigration, not an emigration, country. It is also abundantly true that the admission of the political refugees would be, not only an act of humanity, but a farseeing contribution to the strength of the whole British Commonwealth.
I suggest, however, that Mr. Hodson makes a mistake when he says that the populations of New Zealand and Australia are just reproducing themselves. In fact for the last five years the birth-rates in those countries, as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, have been well below the rate of reproduction.—Yours faithfully,
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