Colwell Attacks 'Some Americans In Tokio

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1949, Page 5

Colwell Attacks 'Some Americans In Tokio

LONDON, Mon. (1.30 p.m.).—Some prominent Americans in Tokio were actively engaged in a conspiracy to circumvent Australia’s immigration laws, the Australian Minister for Immigration (Mr Calwell) told the British United Press correspondent in Sydney. @ t . In an interview, which is published in London today, Mr Cahvell said these Americans included the chief of General MacArthur’s legal section (Colonel Alva Carpenter).

He added that the-conspiracy was to help a United States citizen, Corporal Lorenzo Gamboa, who was bom of Filipino parents, to enter Australia to visit his Australian wife in Melbourne.

Gamboa and his friends began to seek ways of circumventing the Australia Government, making us look ridiculous.

“Colonel Carpenter and certain other Americans in Tokio have been trying to use the Gamboa case to discredit us and heap ridicule upon the longestablished policy which is the law of the land in Australia.”

Mr Calwell declared: “There has been much manoeuvring and intrigue in the Gamboa case.

“It became clear to uS that Gamboa was not merely seeking an oportunity to visit his wife. "He wanted permanent residence. "He originally applied for permanent residence. “When this application was refused

Ml' Calwell claimed that Colonel Carpenter had been trying to speak for General MacArthur, but General MacArthur had ilever personally made rep. resentations to the Australian Government about Gamboa. ~