This population is accustomed to a relatively high standard of life, in which, even now, some sections of it anticipate improvement rather than deterioration.

In relation to other continents Europe is not self-sufficient; in particular it cannot feed Itself.
Internally the population is not evenly distributed, but much of it is crowded into a relatively small number of dense industrial centers.

This population secured for itself a livelihood before the war, without much margin of surplus, by means of a delicate and immensely complicated organization, of which the foundations were supported by coal, iron, transport, and an unbroken supply of imported food and raw materials from other continents.

By the destruction of this organization and the interruption of the stream of supplies, a part of this population is deprived of its means of livelihood.

Emigration is not open to the redundant surplus.