A PACIFIC PACIFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 7

A PACIFIC PACIFIC.

NEAR FUTURE PROBLEMS.

THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

A PROFESSOR'S HOPES.

(By Cable—Press Association.^Copyright.)

(Received 1 p.m.)

WILLIAMSTOWN (Mass.), Aug. 5.

Dr. Arnold J. Townbee, Professor of History in the University of London, speaking before the Pan-American Union, which is holding a round-table conference of the Institute of Politics, said Britain was watching with breathless interest the policy pursued by the United States in the Pacific.

He said the Dominions bordering the Pacific and Indian oceans were likely to follow the United States' lead in creating a hostile or a friendly atmosphere in that part of the world.

Referring to the problem produced either by actual mingling of European and Oriental populations in a new country such as Natal or California or by the imminent possibility of such mingling as in Australia," Dr. Tovnbce said.

"one of the greatest potential values of the British Commonwealth lies in the fact that it includes great people of both classes and therefore offers a framework in which a peaceful solution of the problem of contact between them may conceivably be worked out." —(Reuter.)

ADMIRAL'S OPTIMISM.

WASHINGTON, August 5

Rear-Admiral W. W. Phelps, speaking at, Wiiliamstown, Massachusetts, said: "I do not believe in -any war with Japan. Both nations .would be perfect fools to promote a conflict. I think a new mentality is developing and that commerce is gaining between the two

nations."

The admiral said the Washington Conference has removed the mental fear that was engendered by vast armaments.— (Reuter.)