ASIATIC MIGRATION

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 6

ASIATIC MIGRATION

“WORLD’S BIGGEST ISSUE.” LONDON, November 23. Mr J. L. Garvin, editor of the ‘ Observer,’ in an editorial, says : “ America, until she chooses voluntarily to enter the League of Nations, must be regarded by all wise persons as an independent Power, totally exempt from tho League’s rnlefe Any other view means failure and disaster.

“The question of Asiatic immigration to white communities may become bigger and more fateful than any European issue. It is a question on which America will not tolerate any interference or intervention from Geneva. On this matter, the Protocol rvas born dead, and the League will bo dead unless amendments are adopted excluding this kind of interference.

“We must fare facts, whether we like or dislike them. The British Empire cannot accept the Protocol as if, stands, and must request large modification'. The dominions are identified with America on immigration. It_ is their domestic affair, on which they will not suffer any tutelage, direct or indirect, from Geneva, nor will Britain and the dominions manacle themselves in advance to uncertain commitments on unknown possibilities

“ Tho dominions will not comment to run any risk of being dragged into hostilities against their judgment and conscience No English-speaking community will allow' its blood and treasure to be devoted to any cause without Parliament’s decision/’ According to a message from Paris, M. Albert Sarraut, formerly Minister for the Colonies and Governor-General of IndoChina, states that insufficient attention is being given to the Pacific, where, he says, trouble is brewing over the conflicting interests of America and Japan, and is likely to result in the most formidable conflict in the world’s history.