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[Handwritten annotation at the top of the page:] Migration Aust. Policy – White Aust. Policy
[Heading] PRESS CUTTING
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TRADE COMMISSIONER IN INDIA, SIMLA
Name of the Paper: … 'THE DAWN'
Published at: … DELHI.
Dated: … 5th Jan. 1944.
[A newspaper cutting is attached to the page, oriented sideways. It shows a political cartoon with the title 'PACIFIC CHARTER?']
[The cartoon shows a wall labelled with a poster and guarded by an Australian soldier. The poster on the wall reads:]
THE AUSTRALIAN DOMINION
NOTICE
No Admission to Indians
(You have been WARNED)
[An old man in traditional Indian clothing is reading the poster. Next to him is a briefcase labelled 'RECIPROCITY ACT'.]
[A group of men in traditional Indian clothing are carrying a man in a suit on a litter, as if they have come through the gap in the wall. The man on the litter is reading a book labelled 'D.I.R' and is shaded by an umbrella labelled 'THE GOVERNOR OF BENGAL'.]
[The comic is captioned:] "I think it most important that Australians should get more and better jobs abroad and I have just drafted a long letter to the Prime Minister on the matter." – Mr Richard Casey
