The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-07-07

quickly lifted the point Of is
tail INTO the cloud. becoming
part Of the cloud base
readily, with the government pay
ng their fares 1t fell 10 the lot
Of tht minister Tor immigration,
10 do the dirty work of removing
the remainder. Throughout the
East reaction to the uprootinf Of
those who had settled down here
! was one Of bitter resentment.
One deportation case that arous-
I'd public opion was that Of Mrs.
Annie O'keefe. a full-blooded In
d9nesian woman with eight chill
dren, who came to Australia as
a refugee in 1912. In 1914 her Am
bonese husband was killed in an
air crash and in l947 she man led
a Australian named O'Keefe. In
January 1919 the minister fer i'm
migration informed Mrs. O'keefe
that she had only one month in
which to leave the country. The
big newspapers. glad of any OPP
portunity to crack the Labor gov
eminent, whipped up a wave OF
sympathy for the family. Pub
he opinion was running hot when
the minister, Mr.. Calwell, made a
speech in Parliament about the
CASE. Among other things he said:
You can have a White Australia
or a Black Australia, but a mon
grel Australia is impossible. | am
not going to take the first steps
to establish presidents which will
open the TlooaS ases..
A storm of protest from Dutch
and Asian authorities greeted his
comment, Along with public SYM
pathy for the O'keefes came mon
ey to contest the validity of the
governments order in the High
court OF Australia. The question
was whether or not Mrs. O,Keefe
was now. by marriage, an Austria
han citizen. On March Is the court
IN four to two decision. said
Yes Licking his wounds. the
minister talked of "a complete over
haul and consolidation of the Act =
Another case. with internation-
| al complications. was that of Ser
/ geant Lorenzo Gamboa. a Filip;no
lie hfst came to Australia as a
stretcher case, from Bataan. in
l942. In 1913 he married an Ans
trallan girl, and in 1916 he was
discharged from the American mr..
my in Brisbane, Queensland Lat
er he was told that he would have
to leave Australia because he was
not an American citizen. He went
to America, re-enlisted and took
out papers for citizenship. Thus
armed he applied to the Australian
authorities to join his wife and
eh'id In Australia, but he was re-
fused permission for even a tenn
pofary visit. Gamboa appealed to
General Macarthur for help and
got 1t. but the Commonwealth re-
Jeeted even the Generals appeals
Lorenzo Gamboa was good to fight
for Australia but not to live there
His skin was brown!
But does the average Australi-
an approve of an unrelenting
White Australia policy? A survey
OF opinions in Sydney in 1917.
showed 80 percent in favor of
admitting a small annual quota of
indians and Chinese, while 80 per
cent were opposed and percent
were doubtful. Nevertheless, talk
OF modifying the policy meets with
sharp hostility. Mr.. Spooner. a
member of Parliament, suggested
at church forum on July 8. 1945
that Australia should admit Asians
on quota system, like that used
IN the U. s. When Mr.. Spooner's
comments were mentioned in Par
lament, the vice president of the
Executive Council asked him,
Would Mr.. Spooner throw a
spoonful Of tea into boiling bill
ly and still expect to have plain
hot water? Once there is any COM
promise on the White Australia
policy, the policy is lost Or. as
Prof. Elkin says. In his book "A
White Australia: THAT suggested
modification of the policy should
be labelled heresy is in keeping