LIES IN EAST
AUSTRALIA'S DESTINY
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
WAGGA, November 9. Geographically Australia belongs .to the Asian seaboard, and nothing can separate the Commonwealth’s destiny from the fate of the Orient, said the Bishop of Goulburn (Dr. Burgrnann) at a Churchmen’s breakfast to-day. “We shall fail the: British Empire as well as ourselves and our neighbours if we do not succeed in establishing friendly and helpful relations, with the Eastern peoples, and at the moment with the people of Japan,” he .declared. , “It is not a matter of choosing between Britain and Japan. “Our Oriental neighbours stand to us in the same relation as Europe and Scandinavia stand to Great Britain, her trade being bound up in theirs. “In the Pacific the policy pursued must he one which relates the British Commonwealth to the Orient through tb * Australian viewpoint, and in relation to Pacific interests as a whole.’’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1936, Page 5
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