On several occasions I have referred in these notes to
the determination of the American people yet further to limit the number of immigrants permitted to land in their country each year. The present law permits some 350,000 European immigrants to enter in the twelve months. If the Bill of Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the House Committee at Washing- ton, becomes law, the number of immigrants permitted will be reduced to 168,000, a small figure when we recall the fact that before the War nearly one and a-half million Europeans were admitted in a year. The plainly manifested desire of public opinion drastically to limit the number of immigrants, especially those coming from Slav and Southern European countries, has called forth protests in part of the foreign Press of the United States, especially in the leading Jewish and Italian newspapers. Despite these critics the American Press as a whole seems in favour of the strictest limitation. This desire is part of the much discussed determination to preserve the United States as a Nordic nation.
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