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Citizens Committee Formed in Australia to Fight Projected Mass-admission of Germans

February 13, 1951
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Sparked by Dr. H.V. Evatt, former Minister of External Affairs and now deputy leader of the Federal opposition, a citizens’ committee was set up here today to fight Immigration Minister Harold Holt’s proposal to admit 25,000 Germans annually as immigrants to Australia.

The committee announced that it will inform the Australian public of the dangers of German mass immigration. Its members include churchmen, veterans and others. Meanwhile, Dr. Evatt, addressing a mass meeting here, denounced the release of convicted Nazi war criminals as “appeasement of Hitlerism.”

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