WORLD’S RIGHT

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 July 1925, Page 5

WORLD’S RIGHT

MIGRATION OF PEOPLES

EXCLUSION LAWS CONDEMNED

PROBLEM OF UNUSED LANDS

BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPfKIGIIT Received Julv 9/ 11.15 a.m. HONOLULU, July 8.

Speaking at the Institute of Pacific Relations, Ta Chew, principal of the Peking University, scorned the exclusion laws “which are unjust because one of the principal ground,, of discrimination is race and colour. . .

Migration is the natural right of the world; it is a common possession, and no people can be justified in withholding unused lands that other people can use and which they need urgently.” Dr. Chew remarked that it was said that the Chinese were not assimilible, but it was nearer the truth to say that no serious attempt had ever been made in any country of the Pacific at any time to assimilate the Chinese. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford ‘University, California, paid a tribute to the Institute when addressing the Rotary Club. He said that although unofficial and informal the Institute was, nevertheless, destined to become a permanent and effective instrument for moulding public opinion throughout the world. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.