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    "ocrText": "UNCLASSIFIED\nSECRE?\n-4- -\ninterested governments to reach a mutually satisfactory\nsolution of this problem. You may wish to add that\nyou contemplate referring to the progress made on the\nTreaty problem in your address next day.\n4. Italian Over-population and Emigration\nMr. De Gasperi will explain that there are many\nmore Italians in Italy than the resources of the\ncountry can support. Resulting unemployment cannot be\ncured unless substantial outlets are found for Italian\nemigration to other countries. He will ask for support\nof Italian efforts to arrange such emigration and for\nincreased Italian emigration to the United States.\nYou may wish to assure Mr. De Gasperi that the\nUnited States Government fully realizes the importance\nof emigration to a. solution of Italy's economic problems,\nespecially unemployment. We do not, however, consider\nthat emigration alone will solve those problems. This\nhighly technical subject has been discussed with the\nSecretary of State, the Economic Cooperation Administrator,\nand other officials of the United States Government,\nto the\nand you may assure Mr. De Gasperi that this Government\nwill continue to study Italian proposals sympathetically\nPECORDS\nand be as much help as possible. The matter of increased\nE\nimmigration into the United States is one for the\nCongress to consider, and the Government can go no\nfarther than the Congress permits. Italian emigration\nto other countries naturally requires the agreement of\nthose countries. When Italy reaches agreement wi th\nthem, we will be glad to consider how we may be helpful\nin giving effect to those agreements.\nSince it appears that there is significant\nCongressional opposition to United States participation\nin any international migration organization which includes\nCommunist countries, it has not been possible to\nformulate a final governmental position on this matter.\nYou may, therefore, wish to avoid detailed discussion\nof the ILO proposal for an international organization,\nto be discussed at the forthcoming Migration Conference\nat Naples. You may wish to say, however, that the U.S\nGovernment favors in principle, international efforts to\nsolve the migration problem, and hopes in the near future\nto be able to support specific ideas for an international\norganization.\nSECRET"
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