PACIFIC RELATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1933, Page 7

PACIFIC RELATIONS

APPEAL FOR PEACE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BANFF (Alberta), August 14. Sir Herbert Samuel, the chairman of the British group attending the Institute of Pacific Relations at the inaugural dinner to-night, of the Conference's fifth biennial meeting, said that slowly and painfully the world was learning that a philosophy of conflict, combat and war was wrong, and that each country prospered best in a prosperous world. He continued: “Civilisation is too materialistic, and the economic side of life tends to dominate the whole.” The Pacific problems, he urged, should be treated by themselves—the problems of population, production, consumption and currencies especially. It should also be recognised that these problems must be linked, of necessity, with the similar problems of the rest of the world. “Why.” Sir Herbert asked. “should the globe be ever a scene of conflict?”