INDIAN OBJECTS TO WHITE AUSTRALIA

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1949, Page 8

INDIAN OBJECTS TO WHITE AUSTRALIA

ADELAIDE, February 23.

An Indian who is leaving. Australia at the request of the Federal Govvernment said to-day that it was anomalous that Indians were kicked out of Australia while war-time enemies were welcomed as migrants. He is Mr Fuzil All Kahn, a former captain in the Indian Army, and recently an airline clerk in Melbourne. He is travelling to India by the liner Mooltan after being imprisoned as an unwanted alien and released on the understanding that he would leave the country as soon as possible.

Mr Fuzil All Khan asked why Indian Army men should have been treated as comrades during the war and then refused entrance to Australia. “I am not being deported”, he added. “I am paying my own expenses. I do not want to come back as long as the present migration laws continue.

“It is strange that Dr Evatt should be head of the United Nations, with its emphasis on human rights, yet that Australia should have these laws against the rights of a human like myself”.