INQUIRY GRANTED

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1944, Page 6

INQUIRY GRANTED

INTERNED AUSTRALIANS SYDNEY, May 3. All cases of the internment of the Australian First Movement members will be investigated by Mr Justice Clyne. Only four of the twenty members of the movement arrested m 1942 still remain in internment. Announcing Justice Cyne’s appointment to investigate the internments, the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) said that if the Judge recommended prosecutions this would be done. “I desire that all facts should be made public,” Dr Evatt stated, “but the Security Service cannot disclose some of the facts without divulging milit.-Jry and security intelligence of a high order of secrecy. Any person rushing in to make party political capital out of these cases will find after the full facts are disclosed, that he is on the side of a group, the leaders of which were prepared to stab Australia in the back during the period of our greatest peril.” Several former members of the movement who were interned petitioned recently that they should be given the opportunity to cleai’ themselves publicly of any suspicion of subversive activities.