N. Guinea

Indonesians And Western

Some Plain Logic for Aus tralians and N. Zealanders

mHE Indonesians have no economic, JL moral or racial rights in Dutch New Guinea, and it was time the Australian Government took firm action to prevent infiltration of Indonesians into the New Guinea area —that was the substance of a resolution by the Queensland Re turned Soldiers’ League in June.

Whereupon a gentleman who signed himself “W. T. Phillips, Methodist Minister, Indooroopilly,” wrote to the senior Brisbane news paper (June 17) and called upon the RSL to reconsider the matter.

He said that 70 millions of Indo nesians are very conscious of their new-found liberty, after being under “foreign rule” for hundreds of years; and he quoted from a re port by a writer named Finkelstein, who had engaged in research on be half of the Institute of Pacific Re turns, to show that Western NG belongs to the Indonesians.

We respectfully remind Mr. illlips (a) that the organisation he refers to is a Pink Institute, and ;as charged in USA not long ago \ itli Communist associations: and *: that the Dutch took over the Indies archipelagoes 350 years apo. and civilised them, and created

whatever national organisation exists there. If the Dutch are obliged to hand over the East Indies to the Indonesians, then un questionably the European-Aus tralians, who took over their con tinent only 150 years ago, are obliged to hand over Australia to the Aborigines; and the New Zea landers likewise should withdraw from New Zealand, which they

occupied 100 years ago, and let the Maoris have it. fl Mr. K. H. Henderson, OBE, Com missioner of Local Government in Fiji, and Mr. George Arthur, Act ing Director of Education, have been appointed provisionally as members of the Fiji Legislative Council.