FOR GOOD OR BAD?

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 9

FOR GOOD OR BAD?

AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE

THE ASIATIC PRfOBLEM

DEPENDENCE ON

NAVY

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.) NEW YOEK, January 21. Mr. D. McK. Dow, official secretary to the Commissioner-General for Australia in America, has written a book entitled "Australia Advances," which is to be published on Australia Day. It is a comprehensive exposition of the Commonwealth's modern, development, designed chiefly for American readers, and answers thousands of questions which have been asked during his fourteen years of office in America. ..' Mr. Dow stresses strongly the White Australia policy, and indicates that Mr. Theodore Rc-05e.ve.Jt, in. J9Q7 told him Australia should fiU tlpe empty north with thousands qi settlers from' Southern. European countries. Mr. Dow adds: "Since the return of improved industrial conditions, and with the extension of assisted, migration from Britain, it may be anticipated that Australia will elect to forget Mr. Theodore Eoqsevelt's suggestion." The book details the • history of Labour ■in Australia, and points out many striking similarities between Australian Labour in; the nineties and the course of American Labour in 1936^37. Dealing with relations ; between America a.nd Australia, he says that ( AiHe.rica's attitude generally is expressed in whole-hearted friendship towards Australians. ■■■''.:. ; ' / in conclusion Mr. Paw refers to Aus^ tra.],ia's ominous isolation. "Australians would b,e blind indeed if they failed to see the obvious fact that a good or a bad, course in future development will be determined, by- the answer to one problem: Will Australia, p.gainst the wiiV of h,er present population, be BOP\jla.ted by great masses from the ayer crowded peoples of Asia?" He. acids, that, mjbre so than any Qti\er Dominion in ihe Empire, Ausr transit's, \iie : depends on the moral influence ar\d practical support of the British 'frfovy. *