WHITE AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7

WHITE AUSTRALIA

AS IT SEEMS TO INDIA

FEARS EXAGGERATED

SAFEGUARDS SUGGESTED

(United Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 3rd June, 11 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Thi3 Day.

The Dewan Eangachariar, the Indian representative at the Canberra ceremonies, in an interview with Press representatives, said that he understood and sympathised with the ideal of a White Australia. He interpreted that ideal, however, as a desire to preserve racial purity. Beneath it. ran deep the fear that, once. the dark-skinned races were admitted into Australia, intermixture would begin. Those who felt this fear, he said, underestimated the national pride of the Indian. . The law of his race against inter-marriage was rigidly upheld even within India itself, as between caste and caste. The prohibition would operate with much more strength where white people were concerned. . Just as an undermining of the economic standard might be prevented, by insisting that Indian immigrants to Australia should have a certain amount of property so racial purity might be protected by providing that such migrants should be married and accompanied by their wives. Migration from India would not bo extensive, even if all restrictions whatever were removed. The Indians as a race were much too settled for that. It was only within the past few years, comparatively speaking that social conventions had allowed them to move out of the country at all. .