Australia's "Mr. Calwell" Castigated
Eeceived. Friday, 7 p.m. SINGAPORE, Jime 4. "Blunclering, tactless, unreasonahle, harsh, provocative, " were adjectives today applied to the Australian Minister of Immigration (Mr. Calwell) by a leading article in the newspaper Straits Times which has the largest circulation in Malaya. The article said Mr. Calwell had imited Malayans by in turn offending Malaya 's Chinese Eurasians by the expulsion of some of their numhers. It was vital for Australia to imderstand that these expulsions — minor incidents in themselves, — touched the deepest and most vital thing in the Asian mind — racial pride. Educated Malayans were keeping a sense of proportion and realised the social and economic reasons for the Australian harrier against Asian settlement. "But when Mr. Calwell suddenly. decides that a few rtispectable Asian or Eurasian individnals who have lived in Australia for years must he uprooted, forced to give up their jobs, break up their homes and families and return to Asia, that is when the White Australia policy offends the racial pride of Malaya." The Malayan Government is sending back to Australia . two Chinese deportees and their Australian wives, says a correspondent. They arrived from Australia last month.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1948, Page 5
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