PACIFIC AND PEACE.
NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING
WHAT SHOULD BE DOME.
TALK WITH WORLD-WIDE
TRAVELLER.
Colonel Bailey, t&P widelytravelled Australian, who is now a citizen of the United States of America, left by R.M.m.s. Aorangi this morning. Just before going aboard, the visitor said: "I am of the opinion that the need of the closest co-operation and understanding between the people of these Dominions and the peoples of the United States is most essential, so that the peace of the Pacific may be preserved. As a member of the Explorers' Club of New York," he continued, "and as president of the Adventurers' Club, California, for the past four years, I am constantly in touch with world travellers. The Adventurers' Club brings these men together; soldiers of fortune and adventurers from the Orient, Russia, and, in fact, every part of the world. Everyone knows that the countries in the Orient are teeming with millions of people, and do not know how they can cope with the problem of their increasing population. They look at the vast uninhabited territory in your Dominion and Australia, and ask themselves why that should be.
"You may have to fight for your country before very long," he said "Naturally the U.S.A. is vitally interested in the situation and believes that it will have trouble from that quarter. We should stand together, and there should bo the closest understanding, so that the peace of the Pacific may be main tained for the white people. It is no idle dream of mine. Isolation is a menace to New Zealand and Australia. Your scattered population and distant centres of settlement would make it far easier for you to be attacked than it would be in the case of Canada and the United States, where these opportunities would not exist to anything like the same extent. China is arising in her might and understanding under the tutelage of the agents of other countries, and the need has become the greater for this co-operation of which I speak."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 108, 10 May 1927, Page 10
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