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Japanese wives

2023-03-10
CANBERRA: Mr Arthur Calwell, Australian Immigration Minister, said today [March 9] that Australian soldiers and civilians were forbidden to bring Japanese wives or any children of a union with Japanese women to Australia. He told reporters: `An Australian marrying a Japanese can live with her in Japan and passport facilities can be granted, but it would be the grossest act of public indecency to permit any Japanese of either sex to pollute Australian shores while any relatives remain of Australian soldiers dead in Pacific battlefields.` The Immigration Department`s attitude had been communicated to Australian troops in Japan, Mr Calwell said. `No Australian is permitted to outrage the feelings of widows and mothers by flaunting Japanese women before their eyes,` he added. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported from Benares,] A series of 25 volumes in Hindu entitled `Gandhiji` will be published ... under the chief editorship of Pandit Kamlapati Tripathi, MLA. The series will contain Mahatma Gandhi`s life, his writings and teaching together with articles and poems of Mahatma Gandhi and the condolence messages received after his death. News agencies