WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1920, Page 8

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

THE POLICY IN JEOPARDY. By Telegraph .—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, August 11. The Sun newspaper, in an article on the White Australia policy, states that the question whether the principle of the policy of a White Australia is in jeopardy must finally be answered by the end of the year at the conference in Geneva, vljpn the Australian mandate in the Pacific is promulgated. The paper states' that secret diplomacy still precludes the public from knowing all that happens between the Chancelleries, but there is the very best reason for stating that Japan very decidedly, upon several occasions, endeavored to render the White Australia policy ' abortive, and that she will undoubtedly attempt to destroy it again at Geneva, Where the policy' may be canvassed in a far more detached and academic spirit. There will be a greater number of delegates, with a greater number of votes which may awing for or against Australia, and, once a decision is reached, Australia must either submit or break awav from the League of Nations.

The* Sun states that, unless Ministers are able honestly to affirm that the integrity of the White Australia policy will not be upset at Geneva, a delegation should be dispatched at Geneva to urge the claims of the White Australia policy.