BRITISH SETTLERS
" LIFE TOO HARD IN AUSTRALIA ,J COMPARISON DRAWN Will SOUTHERN EUROPEANS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 11-i (•Received Hay 12, at 2.15 pan.) . At Cardiff Sir Hal CdSebatch (AscentGeneral for Western Australia), addressing the Overseas League Branch, said that present-day Britishers were incapable of founding a new Empire and drew a comparison between the Britishers who settled in Australia and found life too hard and the gains too few with the Southern Europeans entering the country without official encouragement. and who had made godd by hard work. His hearers sat in silence as Sir Hal Colebatch made sport of Britain’s socalled liberty. “ What is wanted irt this country,” he said, “is a 10-year plan aimed at building up the people’s mental, moral, and physical standard.”' He advocated compulsory military, training, and added that Australisl wanted a 98 per cent. British population, hut they must he Britishers of the right sort.
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Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 15
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152BRITISH SETTLERS Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 15
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