DISCRIMINATION DEPLORED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 9

DISCRIMINATION DEPLORED

A CLERICAL PROTAGONIST LONDON, Mar. 17. The question of the colour bar was discussed at a conference of Missionary societies of Great Britain, and Ireland. The Archbshop of Canterbury, Dr G. F. Fisher, at a press conference afterwards said that the missionary societies aimed at the universal application of the policy to which the British Government was committedfull freedom of opportunity for all peoples of the world without racial discrimination. The conference, in a statement, urged that British people should not tolerate in British colonies any artificial barriers to the progress and prosperity of the native inhabitants, such as exist in North and South Rhodesia and Kenya, and should support Government efforts to remov.e them. It would view with grave misgiving any changes of the existing political status of African territory at present under British control which would impair or limit the British Government’s power to give full effect to the policy of fair play for every man, irrespective of colour, or which would subject the native population to policies based on different principles. Australia will probably be approached to widen its immigration policy regarding Asiatics.