PACIFIC PROBLEMS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 August 1926, Page 5

PACIFIC PROBLEMS

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.

COMMISSION SUGGESTED LEAD FROM U.S.A. WANTED. BY CABLE—PB-ESB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. A message from WiHiamstoww states that Professor Duncan Hall, of Sydney University, interviewed, said that the Washington Conference was a magnificent gesture, but it stopped on the threshold of achievement. The peoples of the Pacific, especially Australia and New Zealand, were waiting for a second lead from the United States which would carry further the work of the conference. Pr-ofessor Hall maintained that what the- present- situation in tlie Pacific required was a regional pact whereby the parties to the Washington Conference would! agree to refer all disputes to apermanent commission, of inquiry, the report of which would not be binding, but would permit public opinion in the various countries to explore the facts and give- calm consideration to the possibilities of amicable adjustment. The 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 affairs at the Svracase University.