MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.
APPEAL TO LEAGUE MOOTED
STRONG FEELING IN ITALY.
OPINION OF MUSSOLINI
By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright. (Received December 30. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 20. " Australia may soon want all the friends sho can get at Geneva," said an Australian who was a delegate to the League of Nations in September. "It will not bo surprising if the Italian migration incidents are tho prelude to the raising of the whole question of migration at Geneva. "It is believed that the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, told tho Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. H. Scullin, that the wholesale increase of tho population would rapidly solve Australia's pro bleins.
" Tho view held throughout Italy is that Australia is not justified in refusing admission to Italians, who are white men, provided they are good, hard-working citizens.
" Correspondence is continually reaching Signor Mussolini from Italians in Australia Baying Australia pays £lO for work which is only worth £5. Signor Mussolini does not accept Mr, Scullin's case for Australia's insistence on keeping up what Italians regard as an extravagant standard of living, and the immediate question is, whether Italy will attempt to raise tho migration issue at the League of Nations, as will probably Germany and Japan. "Tho Dominions' new nationhood, as defined by the Imperial Conference, may leavo Australia to carry out tho negotiations without British diplomatic counsels."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 11
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