MISSION LEADER TAKEN TO TASK.
* SYDNEY, June 8. The Departmont of External Affairs has reprimanded the leader of the Australian Far East Goodwill Mission (Mr. W. MacMahon Bgll) aecording to the Canberra correspondent of tne Hydney Telegraph, who says that tne department has reininded Mr. Bait that he left Australia with speeific mstructions to offer £500,000 worth ox relief suiiplies and education aid to the peoples of Bouth-East Asia and to arrange for Asiatic students to enrol at Australian universities or colleges. Mr. Ball is reported to have tola Malavs that the Australian opinion on the White Australian policy would ehaqge within 10 years, The Hvdney Morning Herald correspondent says Mr. Ball is critieised m offieial circles for going oufside his proviqce in diseussing immigration with the leaders of the Malay, Chinese and Indian communnties, His reported statement that the misunderstandings in Malaya over the White Austrafia policy were the result of individual administrative acts have been' interpreted" in some Government quar* ters as criticism of Mr, Calwell, the j Minister of Immigration. J
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 June 1948, Page 5
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