ASIATIC MIGRATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 December 1924, Page 2

ASIATIC MIGRATION.

PACIFIC MTJRMiJRiNGS. \ LONDON, Nay. 23. , Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor, of the Obin an editorial says:—“America, until she chooses voluntarily to enter the League of Nations, must be, regarded by all wise persons as an independent .Power totally, exempt from the League’s rules. Any other view means .failure and disaster. “The question of Asiatic immigration to white communities may become bigger and more fateful than any European issue. It is a question on which America will hot tolerate any interference or intervention from On this matter, the Protocol >vas born dead, and the League .will be dead unless amendments are adopted excluding this kind of interference. “We must face facts, whether. we like or dislike them. The British Empire cannot accept the Protocol as it stands, and must request large modifications'. The. Dominions are identified with America on immigration. It is their domestic affair, on which they will not suffer any tutelage,, direct or indirect, from Geneva, nor will Britain and the- Dominions manacle themselves in advance to uncertain commitments on unknown possibilities. “The Dominions will not consent, to run the risk of being dragged into hostilities against their judgment and conscience. No Englishlspeaking community will allow its blood and treasure to be devoted to any cause without Parliament’s decision.” According to a message from Paris M. Albert Sarrat, formerly Minister for the Colonics and Governor-General of 1 11 do-China, states that insufficient attention i s beirig given to the Pacific, where, lie says, trouble is brewing over the conflicting interests of America and Japan, and is likely to result in, the most formidable conflict in-the world’s hi stony.