CALWELL ACCUSED OF “WILD CONDUCT”
MELBOURNE, Oct. 14.
In reply to an attack made on it by the Minister of Immigration (Mr A. A. Calwell) in the House of Represntatives yesterday, the Melbourne Herald says: “Mr Calwell’s suggestion that no publicity would have been given to the Australian girls in the United States but for the action of this paper in cracking a cable or stealing a telegram is typical of the Minister’s wild and irresponsible conduct. “As far back as September 16, weeks before the present incidents occured, the Herald published a long dispatch from Washington. This said that Australian girls who had gone there from Manila were claiming that indirect pressure was being applied by the Commonwealth to force them to return to Australia. The dispatch also said that the girls believed that Mr Calwell had requested the United States State Department then to provide them with free passages to Australia. The Herald is able to obtain its news by legitmate means,, in spite of the barriers which Mr Calwell seeks to raise.” ..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1948, Page 6
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