[Newspaper clipping attached to a backing page, stamped in purple ink '25 JUN 1954','MELBOURNE HERALD'.]

[Headline:] Calwell says Indian envoy has "abused" our hospitality

[Bold text:] The Deputy Federal Opposition Leader, Mr Calwell, in Sydney today, charged the Indian High Commissioner to Australia, General K. M. Cariappa, with having "abused Australian hospitality."

He was commenting on General Cariappa's reported attack in Brisbane last Monday on the "White Australia" policy.

[Portrait photo of a man in military uniform, captioned 'GEN. CARIAPPA'.]

But after an interview with General Cariappa today, the acting Minister for External Affairs, Sir Philip McBride, said: "No further action by the Australian Government is necessary."

General Cariappa was reported to have said in Brisbane:

'The White Australia policy is driving 440 million people of India and Pakistan away from the British Commonwealth and into the arms of Communism.'

Later, he claimed he had been "misunderstood."

[Bold text:] In Sydney, Mr Calwell also charged Gen. Cariappa today with "impertinence." [End bold.]

The Federal Government’s failure to disclose its attitude to Gen. Cariappa’s speech was "lamentable."

Mr Calwell added: "Gen. Cariappa has no right to speak for Pakistan, and it is doubtful if what he says really represents the views of his own Government.

[Bold text:] "Ever since he set foot on Australia, two years ago, Gen. Cariappa has been carrying on a persistent campaign against the White Australia policy. [End bold.]

"If the Australian High Commissioner in India had told the Indian people only once that Kashmir belonged to Pakistan, not India, Mr Nehru would have bundled him home immediately."

With insoluble Indian problems in Singapore, Ceylon, Fiji and South Africa, Australians would not allow Indian settlements to be established here, he said.

Even 10,000 Indian migrants would not solve India’s economic or social problems. They must be settled by India, not the rest of the world.

[Subheading:] "COLONIES"

"Gen. Cariappa is not pleading for token quotas," said Mr Calwell. "He wants large-scale Indian settlements in this country.

"Australia invites to its shore people who are willing to be assimilated into the Australian community.

[Bold text:] "But wherever Indians have gone, whether Asia or Australia, they have set up separate colonies, which tend to become little nations within a nation." [End bold.]

Mr Calwell said for thousands of years, Asians had passed Australia by, as a dry and arid land, not worth occupying.

But because Europeans had developed the country, people Like Gen. Cariappa demanded the impossible – that Australia destroy the homogeneity of its people and create an "unassimilable colony."

[Bold text:] In Canberra, [end bold] Gen. Cariappa conferred with Sir Philip McBride for 15 minutes at Parliament House.

Afterwards Sir Philip said: "Gen. Cariappa and I felt we should discuss reports on his observations on the Australian immigration policy.

[Subheading:] REPORTS

"Today we discussed this and other subjects of interest to the Indian and Australian Governments.

"Cariappa explained the circumstances of the newspaper reports of his observations on the Australian immigration policy.

"As a result no further action by the Australian Government is necessary."

[In italics:] General Cariappa said: “It was nothing… it is a storm in a tea cup."