18 APRIL 1931, Page 2

The United States and Immigration Rigid enforcement. of the Act

of 1924 has at last stemmed and turned the tide of immigration into the United States. Alien admittances have been reduced by 10,000 a month ; aliens who have no legal right to be in America are being turned out at the rate of 1,500 a month, while those who have a right are being encouraged to indulge their nostalgia or discontent by going home at the Government's expense. This policy of exclusion, a development of the old quota principle of selection, has produced, as the Washington correspondent of the Times says, a phenomenon of first-rate interest in the history of migration. * *