PACIFIC PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19330, 17 August 1926, Page 5

PACIFIC PROBLEMS

REGIONAL PACT SUGGESTED TO WORK WITH WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, August 15. A message from Williamstown states that Professor Duncan Hall, of Sydney University, in an interview, said that tho Washington .Conference was a magnificent gesture, but it stopped on the threshold of achievement. Tho peoples of the Pacific, especially those of Australia and New Zealand, were waiting for a second lead from tho United States, which would carry further the work of tire conference. Professor Hall maintained that what tho present situation in tho Pacific required was a regional pact by which tho parties to tho Washington Conference would agree to refer all disputes to a permanent Commission of Inquiry, tho report of which would not be binding, hut would permit public opinion in the various countries to explore the facts and give calm consideration to the possibilities of an amicable adjustment. Tho parties concerned should agree not to resort to hostilities while the Commission was investigating. Professor Hall, who has been attending the Institute of Politics, will shortly assume the chair of history of international relations at the School of Citizenship and Public Affaire at Syracuse (United States of America) University.—A. and N.Z. Cable.