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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 9

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PROBLEMS OF PACIFIC

HONOLULU CONFERENCE

MINIMUM OF AGREEMENT

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 30th July, 9 a.m.) HONOLULU, 29th July. The Institute of Pacific Relations has officially closed its sessions. .

Sir Frederick White, summarising the proceedings on behaW of the British delegates, said: "It is because of our experience in disagreement ana efforts at the peaceful solution of such disagreements that our commonwealth is committed to the League of Nations Ihis conference is a bold experiment because it is composed of men and women who have faith in the future iv our time. Its main value is personal contact. If political, economic, and social discussions have not taken, place these contacts still make'the meeting worth while. Like-all such meeting! it arrived, at a minimum of agreement, but this, even cm the most controversial subjects, was larger than was believed possible. The discussioa on many points developed the need for more facts and research from which the conference may lead to definite projects/ c

The Pacific Council met on Friday for the purpose of signing the constitution for the permanent establishment of the Institute and selecting a tentative place and time for the next meeting <£nt ProbaW3 r take Place in the

Professor Ralston Hayden, of the Uni. yersity of Michigan, addressed a roundtable conference of the Institute oir pohtics. He declared that the Philippine, wero capable of growing enough *eS m. s t upply h/ lf «»-»*a« of a.; w^ til St? t 1 es ' and stated that he berol© m the development of the OrieaS