DEAD SET AGAINST “WHITE AUSTRALIA.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 5

DEAD SET AGAINST “WHITE AUSTRALIA.”

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 23. 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. A dead set against the White Australia policy is sensed by Messrs Svatt and Kitson representing Australia at the World Labour Migtration Congress which opened to-day in which only five English speaking countries, Britain. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa were represented against seventeen European and Asiatic countries (including India, whose representatives are all Indians). Mr W. Wilso nrepresents New Zealand. The United Stat esis not represented. The British delegates included Messrs MacDonald, Henderson, Laasbury, Cramp. Mr Evatt illustrated the deliberate attack on White Australia by quoting the Independent Labour Party's proposal sponsored by Mr Jow-ett and Mr Kirkwood that “migrants should not be excluded purely on grounds of race or colour." Other proposals emanating from other European Asiatic bodies, implicitly if not explicitly, betrayed similar hostility to the white Australia ideal. Messrs Evatt and Kitson determined to fight these proposals to the last ditch and also other sinister proposals from Europeans designed to create rnternational authority to override any national authority such as the dominions trades and labour organisation.