“WHITE AUSTRALIA” POLICY
AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT New York, June 27. Whether the “White Australia” policy can be continued after the war has been questioned by two New York newspapers to-day. “Within a week’s sailing of Australia are 500,000,000 Asiatics,” says the New York “Daily News.” “Within 10 days’ sail there are 1,000 million Asiatics. But there are only 7,000,000 white Australians. Differences in pressure like that breed cyclones. Australia has weathered the crisis, it is largely because of American aid. But our Australian friends will continue to be in great danger while the teeming millions of Asia hang over their slim population.” The “New York Times” said: “One can only wonder about the 1000 millioA congested coloured folk of Asia and nearby white Australia with so few people in it.”—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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