THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3588, 27 September 1920, Page 3

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY. TO BE DISCUSSED AT GENEVA. MELBOURNE, Sept. 24. Senator Millcn, addressing a gathering of business men, referred, to liis mission to the Geneva Conference. He said that of the many problems he discussed none was more vital to Australia than the White Australia policy, which was as important as '.he Monce Doctrine to America, or the freedom of the seas to Britain. We were convinced ourselves of the reasonableness' and justice of that policy, and DOW had to convince the nations of the world that our at itude was right and the "only logical one. "We must, fill Australia with white men, otherwise we would run the great risk of other nations endeavouring to fill Australia for us.

Urging the need of immigration, he de'clared. that if a White Australia had to be successfully maintained the population must be considerably increased by men from our own kith and kin, particularly Britishers who fought in the war.