Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quotas for July, August and September. Therefore, they will accept no more bookings for those months. On the other hand, Consul General Skinner has not viséd so many passports, and declares that the quotas are not filled. So he accused the British companies of trying to deflect immigrants from the United States to British colonies by announcing wrongly that the quotas are filled in advance. The British, in return, suspect him of trying to induce immigrants to use only American ships...