ASIATIC PERIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 7

ASIATIC PERIL.

A WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Dominions Fight A Life And Death Issue. AMERICAN'S REASONING. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, May 22. The National Magazine, which has a circulation of 2,000,000, has an article entitled, "White Australia, the Low Pressure Centre of the Globe," by Mr. Lothrop Stoddard, who several years ago became sensationally famous by his observations on the colour problem.

The article says in one part: "Australia is the focal point where extending forces from the East and the West confront each other most sharply and irreconcilably. It is the logical storm centre where, if potentially hostile forces should be unleashed, the hurricane winds of race war would begin to blow.

"Let there be no mistake. We Americans will be in it too, if the war storm breaks over Australia. America could never stand by and see Australia overwhelmed by Asia. Our Pacific Coast would leap to arms at the first shots of such a war.

"The outstanding fact which catches our eye is that Australia is a very young country. All this explains why Australia to-day is so undeveloped and so thinly peopled. But give Australia time and security from the Asiatic peril and she ought ultimately to become a nation strong enough to guard against auy possible attack."

"How large will young Australia have grown when the Pacific storm winds begin to blow? A White Australia—that is the watchword which unites Australians of every class and creed. So Australia defies a clamorous Asia, and swears to keep Australia a white man's land, or to go down fighting to the last.

"The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand believe that the exclusion of wholesale Asiatic immigration is literally a life and death issue. Such is the bond between us, and that is why we should all stand together on this basic principle of self-preservation, and that is why, if Asia evtr challenges a White Australia, we Americans will be in it too, because 'the guns would go off of themselves.'"

Mr. Lothrop Stoddart's book, "The Rising Tide of Colour Against White World Supremacy," caused a great deal of interest in 1930. He has also written "Present-day Europe—lts National States of Mind" (1917), "The Stakes of the War" (1918), "The Revolt Against Civilisation" (1923), and "Racial Realities in Europe" (1924). He is a graduate of Harvard University and a member of the Massachusetts Bar and of various American learned societies connected with sociology and genetics.