Chifley Orders Probe Into Girls 9 Secret Trip
(Rec. 12.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) has ordered an inquiry into the secret trip from Brisbane to Manila of 15 Australian girls employed by the United States forces.
An officer in charge of the United States base in Brisbane told immigration officers he regarded the girls as enlisted members of the American Army. He said he did not think they required passports. The Minister for Immigration (Mr Calwell) has asked Mr Chifley to take the matter up with high United States authorities.
The girls were not enlisted members of the United States Army, said Mr Calwell, they were civilian workers employed like many other Australians in Am’erican Army establishments.
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Northern Advocate, 5 January 1946, Page 6
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