MIGRANT ASIA.

The article discusses the problems of international distribution of population and raw materials. The objectivity of this study is somewhat marred by the too evident anxiety of the author to find reasons why the U.S., Canada and Australia should find it advantageous to open their presently unexploited areas to Chinese, Japanese and especially Indian immigrants. The argument is diffuse, the whole work seeming to lack systematic organization and central ideas reappear with a somewhat irritating frequency. The author argues with special vigor against the exclusion of Indians from South Africa, from New Guinea and from tropical Australia and other parts of the British Empire or mandated territories. In the tropical regions small groups of whites have through historical accident acquired possession of lands they can neither till nor populate. As the oriental countries develop their own industrialism, the era of western economic expansion slowly terminates, the markets of the western powers are reduced and their sources of cheap raw materials are cut off.