PACIFIC RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 11

PACIFIC RELATIONS

ADDRESS BY MR. E. C. CARTER

The speaker at a - meeting of the Wellington Group of the Institute of Pacific Relations this week, was Mr. E. C. Carter, secretary-general of the institute/ Members of the Royal Institute of' International' Affairs were invited'to attend. '■■•■■••. ■'. .■ ~ : <

. Mr. Carter : spoke}- -of : the great changes, taking-place in the countries round the Pacific Ocean'and of the importance of research.in the cultural and economic forces, so that changes might take place without causing too much friction; Since the conference held in Shanghai* in 1931 Japan had become a world power in production, China had been successful in some of her projects for putting her house in order, .Soviet Russia was taking a keen interest in developing Siberia. Those changes would have a profound effect on the whole world but especially on the Pacific countries. Mr, Carter described the work of the different research groups in the.countries he had visited during the past two years. Groups in the Netherlands arid1 Soviet Russia had affiliated since the Banff conference, and ■ one in France would apply for affiliation at the next conference.

Among the visitors was .Mr. K. Sato, assistant managing editor of the "Osaka Mainichi," who also, spoke to the meeting, describing, Japan's, three most pressing problems—population increase, economic arid' industrial difficulties due. to lack of markets, and conflict arising in the homes of the people, from the'clash of two such different'cultures as. those of the East arid the West.