PROBLEMS OF WORLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 11

PROBLEMS OF WORLD

EASTERN NATIONS CHALLENGE TO THE WEST i EVOLUTION IN CHINA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 24. 9.15 p.m.) BANFF, Aug. 2.3 The Government of Alberta tendered a dinner this evening to the delegates to tho conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations. In the course of a speech Lord Snell (Britain), a member of tho Imperial Economic Committee, remarked that it was customary to blame tho politician and the statesman for the troubles of tho world. People asked impatiently for government by experts. In England there were only three political parties but at least 33 experts and just that number of conflicting economic proposals. The people of the world would bo ill-advised to placo their lives under the control of a dictatorship, either of a single political adventurer or a group of experts. . Among the great problems to be faced was that of tho challenge of the Eastern nations to the comfortable complacency of Western life. " China must get into tho stream of modern progress," said . Dr. P. C. Chang, professor of philosophy in Nanking University. " Chinese culture has adapted itself to outside influences all through the years. " China has been through a period of self-sufficiency and a period of inflation and now is in a period of orientation. Misunderstanding came in the 19th century, but now our contacts with tho West are being soundly established. " What China is going through is not mere absorption of modern products, but China must get into tho stream of modern progress. Material expansion versus human adjustment must he studied by tho Chinese. Tho world is going through a period of capitalistic change and people are doubting their dogmas."