PACIFIC RELATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 5

PACIFIC RELATIONS

SPEECHES AT CONFERENCE.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSX. —COPYRIGHT.]

(Received August 15, 2 p.m.) BANFF (Alberta) August 14.

“Canada is deeply concerned over the major external issues, which seriously affect, the United States, and conversely any attack made upon the Dominion, which might seem a likely result of. giving any non-British people a foothold here, would almost certainly bring the United States into action on Canada’s side,” said Sir Robert Falconer, president of the Fifth Biennial Conference of Pacific Relations. Ho declared that war between the United States and Canada would be a moral atrocity. “The world recently has had the unhappy experience of inter-govern-mental conferences,” declared Mr Jerome D. Greene, Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, replying to Sir R. Falconer’s address of welcome. He added that his experience justified asserting that, where highly controversial issues were concerned, meetings of plenipotentiaries committed to the alternative of definite binding action, or failure, were almost foredoomed to failure, “'rhe process by which international differences could be settled involves two factors. First, the harmonising of views through new information and the removal of misunderstandings. Secondly, mutual sacrifice and concessions, whether actuated by expediency or desire for peace and just ice.”

Dr Inazo Nottobe, Chairman of the Japanese delegation, declared: “A clear understanding where nations stand on the problems that harass today is what, the world wants. It is my privilege Io assure you in the name of the Japanese delegation that, the Institute shall have our earnest co-operat ion.”

Dr Hu Shihi. Professor of Philosophy at the University, dechired that members. of the Institute must i ise above their national prejudices and seek to understand their own national problems in the light of those of other peoples, with whom they live and have commercial relations.