16th December 1941, Australia's Prime Minister gave this speech to the Australian Parliament, of which this is a short extract. Japan had attacked us on the 8th December 1941. Japan attacked the British Empire hours before it attacked the United States but because of the International Date Line it wasn't the same date.
The third thing is that more than 150 years this country has stood. Never shall an enemy set food upon the soil of this country without having at once arrayed against it the whole of the manhood of this nation with such strength and quality that this nation will remain for ever the home of sons of Britishers who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race. Out laws have proclaimed the standard of a White Australia. We did not intend that to be and it never was an affront to other races. It was devised for economic and sound humane reasons. It was not challenged for 40 years. We intend to keep it, because we know it to be desirable. If we were to depart from it we should do so only as the result of free consent, not because it was sought to be taken from us by armed aggression..
When people wrote, spoke and thought of a White Australia, they meant a British Australia.
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