WORLD'S WOES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 191, 15 August 1933, Page 7

WORLD'S WOES.

Understanding and Sacrifices

Must Prevail. PACIFIC 00NFEBEN0E. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BANFF (Alberta), August 14. "Canada is deeply concerned with the major external issues which seriously affect the United States and, conversely, any attack made upon the Dominion which might seem likely to result in giving any non-British people a foothold here would almost certainly bring the United States into action on Canada's side," declared Sir Robert Falconer, president of the fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacilic Relations, at the first general meeting today. "War between the United States and Canada would be a moral atrocity," lie declared.

"The world recently has had an unhappy experience of inter-Governmental conferences," declared Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, replying to Sir Robert Falconer's address of welcome. This experience justified the assertion that where highly controversial issues were concerned, meetings of plenipotentiaries committed to the alternative of a definite binding action, or failure, were almost foredoomed to failure.

"The process by which international difference* can be settled," he continued, "involves two factors: First, harmonising of views through new information and the removal of misunderstandings; and, secondly, nyitual sacrifices and concessions, whether actuated by expediency or a desire for peace and justice." •

Dr. Inazo Nbtobe, chairman of the Japanese delegation, declared that "a clear understanding as to where the nations stand on the problems that harass the world to-day is what is needed. It is my privilege," he went on, "to assure you in' the name of the Japanese delegation that the institute shall have our earnest co-operation." -

Dr. Hu Shih, Professor of Philosophy, declared that the members of the institute must rise above their national prejudices and seek to understand their own national problems in the light of those of other peoples with whom they lived and had commercial and -other relations.