"Then America had come to the rescue, openly and formally, and had offered Massachusetts , which already had a large population of Socialists in its population, as a colony that would be tolerated as definitively socialistic. Christians would be warned that the new system would, if the Powers agreed, be on definitely non-Catholic lines, and that the immigration laws would be in future suspended with regard to Massachusetts . There were, of course, innumerable details still to be worked out, but by the end of February the understanding was established, and from every European country emigrant parties were arranged."