HECKLED BUT URBANE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 4

HECKLED BUT URBANE

AT GATHERING OF WORLD PRESSMEN. NEW GOVERNOR OF BENGAL. (By Telegraph—P ress Association —Copyright) (Received Tills Day, 11-55 a.m.) LONDON, January 6. The new Governor of Bengal (Mr. R. G. Casey) who will go to Bengal within a few days, met a large gathering of world pressmen, and quietly faced a barrage of critical questions from representatives of Indian and American negro newspapers. Replying to one coloured newspaper man who suggested that Australia had harshly applied the colour bar, Mr. Casey pointed out that he was not going to Bengal as a representative of the Australian Government and that therefore it was not necessary to explain or answer the implications of the White Australia PolicyMr. Casey refused to discuss die question, “In India’s position, how would Australia take the appointment of an Indian as Governor of an Australian State?” Mr Casey said the question was too hypothetical for useful debate. . j , , An opinion that the appointment ol Ministers at large on the lines of the Minister of State in the Middle Ease would be valuable in peace time for a country lake Australia was expressed by Mr. Casey. Accredited to a number of governments in the Middle East, South American and other large areas, he said, these Ministers would obtain valuable -information for Australia from other countries facing similar problems