PACIFIC PEACE.
A SUGGESTED CONFERENCE EARLY ACTION URGED. SAN FRANCISCO, September 28. Mr O. V. Whitney, chairman of directors of Pan American Airways, on his return, from Australia and New Zealand, suggested that the United States call a conference of Pacific nations to discuss means of preserving peace.
“I predict that out of such a conference would come a peace lasting many years,” he said, “because if Japan’s intentions are peaceful she will have a chance to prove it. If not, other nations will have a chance to get together for their mutual welfare. There is no question that it would he a great loss to us if we awoke one morning to find the great resources of Australia, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines diverted elsewhere, and also perhaps to find other happily free people like ourselves free no longer. I“f these things are not worth the utmost effort to preserve now, when they ean still bo preserved, then we may soon have to fight for them when the odds have turned very much against us,” said Mr Whitney.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 3
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