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Letters To The Editor
POLICY ON
COLOR BAR
Church View
Outlined
To The Editor
Sir.— On behalf of the SA
Slate Committee of the
World Council of Churches,
I wish to endorse the able
and incisive letter (25/7/54)
of Dr. H. Collin Robjohns
on the subjest of Austra-
lian policy in connection,
more particularly, with
Asian immigration.
Dr. Robjohns's statement
has the more weight in the
light of his honorable re-
cord as a medical mission-
ary in China.
The Australian Council
of the World Council of
Churches, which includes
seven denominations, has
altogether condemned the
use of such an offensive
term as 'White Australia'
and is in favor of a quota
system such as exists in the
US.
These views have been
stongly endorsed by such
representative Christian
leaders as the Bishop ol
Adelaide, the Very Rev J.
R. Blanchard and the Rev.
Alan Walker.
The common faith of
Christians clearly forbids
all discrimination based sole-
ly on differences of race
and color, while the situa-
tion in which we Austra-
lians now are underlines the
urgency of doing every
thing possible to create
and strengthen friendly re-
lations between us and our
thousand million neighbors
in our 'Near North.'
EDWARD S. KIEK
President, SA State Com-
mittee, World Council of
Churches.
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