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...Australia lies in a position peculiarly exposed to Asiatic immigration. We are the outpost of the white race in the Orient. We constitute but a white drop in a colored ocean. Around us are the teaming millions of Asiatic people whose population equals half the population of the world. To open our doors freely to the natives of these overcrowded lands would be to invite an exodus from those countries, while civilization would be obliterated and an inferior one would take its place. This we feel would not be helpful to the world...
...mandatories through the League of Nations under which Australia is given control of all former German possessions lying south of the equator adds to our responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense...
...White Australia policy for Australia involves the purity of our race, the maintenance of our standard of living and the continuation of the influence of Western civilization upon the peoples of the Orient. It prevents at the same time the exploitation of helpless natives such as maintained in the old days...
President C. F. Gates of Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, will speak informally in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 4.30 on education in the Orient. The meeting, held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society, is open to all members of the University, and aims principally to give to those men who contemplate going abroad to teach a chance to ask questions in a personal way concerning opportunities in that field...
...brilliant coloring of the setting for the second act, the scene of which is laid in Petunia, Arabia, forms a decided contrast to the first. Here the artists have been careful to produce nothing which is not true in every detail, and have well caught the atmosphere of the orient...