NEW SOCIALIST GROUP

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 9

NEW SOCIALIST GROUP

PACIFIC AREA COUNTRIES

PROPOSALS TO INSTITUTE'

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)

BANFF, Aug. 24. At the institute of Pacific Relations conference steps were taken on Thursday to organise a new international group of Socialists in countries having interests in the Pacific area. The initiative in forming the new group was taken by Lord Snell, a member of the British group attending the conference. in association with Mr Walter Nash. M.P., leader of the New Zealand group. Mr Nash explained that an effort would be made to interest leading Socialists in every country having contacts with tlie Pacific area with a view to exchanging information. He said valuable work could be done for humanity, and through such an interchange and Labour organisations the world would benefit. Whether a more formal organisation would be effected later Mr Nash could not say, although an effort would be made in that direction. Mr Nash also indicated that the new group would vigorously oppose Bolshevism and Communism and the more rabid forms of modem Socialism. It was defined as a sane, moderate, constructive Socialist movement.