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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION COMMONWEALTH’S POLICY. KOBE, May 10. “ Japan does not wish to intrude, but friendly talk is a sham while racial discrimination is expressly declared ” says the Tokio newspaper, ‘ Hochi Shimbun,’ in expressing hope for the modification of Australia’s immigration policy. Australia could easily support 60,000,000 people, says the paper. At the present rate of increase of her population economic development is impossible. Australian duties, especially' respecting cheap Japanese manufactures, arc excessive, it is asserted. The Singapore base threatens the peace of tho Pacific. The ‘ Clmgai Shogyo ’ says that friendly approaches are vain if economic relationships are sacrificed on the altar of an. Imperial bloc. It surmises that Mr J. G. Latham is promoting Mr J. A. Lyons’s policy of putting Australian interests before £ ho .Ottawa, pggy
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Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 7
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