Sydney Meeting Sees

Red Threat To Ng

Strong criticism of the Australian Government’s attitude on the B New Guinea crisis, and particularly of External Affairs Minister Barwu “peace in our time policy statement in August, was made at a pu meeting in Sydney on August 27.

THE meeting was convened at short notice by a group of pro fessional men led by Dr. C. R. Huxt able, a retired physician, who de clared themselves disturbed at the trend of events in New Guinea and the Australian Government’s failure to do anything about it.

The meeting was attended by about 200 Sydneysiders, including Mr.

Bruce Miles, a barrister and founder of the United Australia Party, and a solid wedge of his supporters who have been campaigning to make P-NG Australia’s 7th State.

The audience was addressed by Dr. Huxtable, Sir Wilfrid Kent

Hughes, Liberal MP from Vk Rear-Admiral H. B. Fame (RAN, Ret’d), Mr. Kevin Dav executive member of the Demc Labour Party; and (unexpected!

Ono Aia, a New Guinea Highl; Sir Wilfrid traced the spre< Communism and Communist fluence since the last war, and culed Sir Garfield Barwick’s placent statement that all was in New Guinea and that Am had gained kudos for playin important part in engineering Dutch-Indonesian agreement.

Barwick’s “peace in our time his account of Soekarno’s “no territorial ambitions” was remin of Chamberlain after Munich.

Dr. Huxtable deplored the fac the UN Trusteeship Council ha commended what amounted to self-government in two years, altl UNO gives the Indonesians un least 1969 in WNG.

Ono Aia is president of the rabi Native Local Government ( cil, near Kainantu, Eastern lands. He was sent down her three months fact-finding by his; native people and has spent me it in Tasmania and Victoria, ’ he has addressed meetings.

He was accompanied by I Officer Barry Holloway, a Local, ernment officer at Kainantu. spoke fluently in Pidgin and I way did the free—very free— lation, leaving Sydney Pressmen eyed at the depth of erudition abstraction of thought that Ono- Pidgin—were capable of.

The sentiments, however, rerr the same in both cases, Ono advocate of the 7th State ide; P-NG. He said that if the Ten became independent as the wanted in two years it would n able to stand alone. His p wanted closer association with tralia—in fact, to become Austn The meeting unanimously pas motion calling Government attt to the dangers of the nation di into “policies of appeasementf relying too much on American] port.” It also called for rejectii the recent UN Trusteeship Mis proposal to give P-NG an electe;; liament within two years; andl demned Indonesian violation a UN Charter and pledges to Ami not to make war over WNG.