PACIFIC RELATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5

PACIFIC RELATIONS

INSTITUTE CONFERENCE BRITISH IDEALS AND ASPIRATIONS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. HONOLULU, July 20. Mr Lionel Curtis, honorary secretary to tho British Institute of International Affairs, presented a paper dis T cussing British ideals and aspirations to the Pacific Relations Institute. It stated that the world owes to England the principle of commonwealth. This principle ho defined as the Sermon on the Mount reduced to political terms—namely, . a society organised on the theory that the duty which each member owes to the rest is beyond measure. Mrs Catt, in an address, said that the making of money had become a substitute for Avar instincts in tho United States. She declared that the poAA-erful groups in America Averc economic Imperialists. CHINESE AFFAIRS. RIGHT TO 'TARIFF AUTONOMY. HONOLULU, July 19. The British and American members of the institute held a round table discussion on Chinese affairs, and expressed confidence that their GoA’ernments Avould recognise China’s right to tariff autonomy when a. National Government had been established at Peking. The British delegates said that Britain was eager to aid China and to co-operato in a solution of the tariff issue.