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Bookplate inserted; passage by Barwick C.J. in foreword (p. vi) highlighted reads: “In a modern civilized community substantial homogeneity of race is a great asset to the people, removing from their path the factitious obstacles which inevitably arise from their co-existence within the same area of peoples of divergent and often conflicting views of the world and of social, economic and political life. In this respect Australia is supremely fortunate to-day. The problems which confront us, complex and difficult as they are, would be indefinitely multiplied and aggravated by racial heterogeneity within the continent. It is firmly and, in my opinion reasonably, believed by Australians that Australia can do most to secure what the Greeks would have called “a good life” for her people by maintaining the present racial composition of the community. This is not a selfish ideal, for it is, we believe, as a free, white democracy that Australia can make her best contribution to the peace and well-being of the world as a whole. It is natural, therefore, for Australians to view with apprehension any endeavours to deal with migration as a subject suitable for general international control.”; p. 90 earmarked and footnote number 24 highlighted in pencil: “See in particular “White Australia” in The Round Table, No. 106, March 1921, pp. 312 – 338 (the ablest argument for the policy as a vital interest of the British Empire); “The White Australia Policy,” by “Sydney,” in Foreign Affairs (New York). Vol. 4. p. 97 (1925); “Australia and Japan,” by E. L. Piesse, op. cit., p. 475 [Foreign Affairs (New York), 1926]. For a fuller sympathetic discussion by non-Australians, see Professor J. W. Gregory’s The Menace of Colour (1925), Chaps. VII – IX, and Professor Ellsworth Huntington’s West of the Pacific, Chaps XIV -XIX.”