New Men for New Lands

From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, governments pondered ways & means of increasing both industrial and agricultural output. Most of Latin America's machines are imported. Argentina excepted, Latin America imports a healthy chunk of its food supply--chief items: wheat, corn and beef. One way out of the deficiency: increase the number of skilled workers by selective immigration.

In Rio last week, Immigration Council Chairman Joao Alberto Lins de Barros announced that Brazil was ready to take 100,000 displaced persons from Europe. Joao Alberto had been working on the plan for months, had just visited both the U.S. and the refugee camps of Europe. If the U.N. would pay transportation costs of $400 a head, he said, Brazil would settle the refugees on its coffee and cattle lands, and would also set them to tending the nation's looms.

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Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land.

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