CAN SHE ENDURE ?

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1943, Page 2

CAN SHE ENDURE ?

White Australia SEVEN MILLIONS FACE ASIA’S MYRIADS. (Rec. 9.40) NEW YORK, June 27. Whether the "White Australia policy can be continued after the war has been questioned by two New York newspapers to-day. The “New York Times” said: “One can only wonder about the thousand million congested coloured folk of Asia, and tne nearby White Australia with so few people in it.” The “New York Daily News” says; “Within one week’s sail of Australia there are five hundred Helions of Asiatics. Within ten days sail, there are one thousand million Asiatics. But there are only seven million white Australians. Differences in pressure like that breed cyclones. If Australia has weathered the crisis, it has largely been be-, cause of American aid. But our Australian friends will continue in great danger while the teeming millions of Asia hang over their slim population/ ■