WORLD UNION
MISSIONARY'S HOPE
THE PIGMENT OF THE SKIN
(From "Ths Post's" Representative) LONDON, October 13.
"For our boys and girls the one place in the world is New Zealand," said the Very Rev. Dr. J. A. Graham, founder of the St. Andrew's Colonial Homes, Kalimpong, at a meeting in the hall of the Church of Scotland Offices, Edinburgh, when giving an account of a tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, on behalf of the homes. "There is no < colour prejudice in New Zealand." Dr. Graham said he had been anxious to see how the children who had been sent out of the homes, and who were scattered - abroad outside India, were faring, and how far it was wise to increase the number of Anglo-Indians among other peoples. The trip had convinced him that it was very important to continue the policy for the sake of the children who were suited to go, and for the homes themselves. He came back much more optimistic for the children sent out, for the children in the homes, and with a feeling of hope for the world itself. Universal union would come not by trying to smash each other, but by trying to help , each other.
Australia was a great country, said| Dr. Graham. The people and the Gov- ] ernment were very friendly, except on the question of colour. They felt that for Australia a white Australia was the true policy. :But he thought thati as a result of a discussion of the matter there might be a certain amount of dark pigment allowed among those who emigrated. New Zealand impressed him most. In proportion to the British people it was the most British of their colonies. There were over 100 children from the homes who were now New Zealanders. In New Zealand there was no colour prejudice—in India they suffered terribly from colour prejudice.
' He considered Canada the country which is to be the chief centre of the British Empire. He had met Lord Tweedsmuir, who was a great power in the Dominion, and one who kept up the credit of the Presbyterian Church.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 8
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