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...will bring the material prosperity enjoyed by the plane-and ship-borne white man. Last week the white man brought to the eastern half of the island* some cargo that a good many cultists might find to be of doubtful value: independence. As Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Britain's Prince Charles stood at attention with a crowd of 10,000 in a Port Moresby football stadium, the Australian flag was hauled down for the last time and replaced by the black, red and gold standard of the world's newest nation, Papua New Guinea...
...troops overran much of the island, Australia had governed Papua-the island's southeastern quadrant-since 1906, and adjoining northeastern New Guinea since World War I under League of Nations and U.N. mandates. Prodded initially by the U.N. and by its own dislike of the colonial image, the Whitlam government fairly rushed the reluctant colony into self-rule (in 1973) and now full independence...
Although not all the details about the gift are complete. Whitlam said the professorship, to be called the Australian Bicentennial Chair, will be "at research level and form a center for Australian Studies by other universities...
...Whitlam, speaking at the Australian-American Association Ball in Sydney, Australia, said he hopes the chair would be the first step in expanding American studies of all aspects of his country...
...Whitlam said in his speech that he commends "this proposal to the great companies and corporations--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...