PACIFIC COUNCIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24554, 9 April 1943, Page 4

PACIFIC COUNCIL

PERMANENT BODY PROPOSED WASHINGTON, April 7 The formation of a permanent United Nations Council was recommended at the December conference of the Institute of Pacific .Relations. The report of the conference, which has just been published, points out that there are considerable criticisms of excessive British-American dominance in the conduct of the war, and the growing belief that operations relating to the war and peace would be badly handicapped unless the present nominal association of the United Nations was transformed into a functioning and policy-making organ. Lord Hailey, a former Governor of the United Provinces of India, suggested a regional council for the Pacific area, consisting of representatives of England, America, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada, Thailand, France, Holland, and the Netherlands East Indies.

The proposed Pacific Council would arrange peace safeguards, and organise co-operative action to secure a common economic policy and tariffs. Other recommendations included the suggestion that .Japan be stripped of all possessions, including Manchuria, Korea and the mandated islands. Chinese delegates indicated that China desired Formosa. Far Eastern delegates proposed that Allied Asiatic troops occupy Tokio temporarily after the war.

The conference rejected a proposal that Emperor Hirohito's palace be destroyed.

M ost of the delegates expressed the opinion that the captured lands in the Pacific area should be returned to the sovereign Rowers, pending steps toward self-government. , A round-table conference on India stressed the need for some form of collective security, including the United States, thus breaking American isolationism on the one hand and British imperialism on the other.

HUGE NAVY VOTE SOUGHT (Deed. 0.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 8

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says President Roosevelt is seeking a record navy appropriation in 1941 of 24,551,070,000 dollars, compared with 23,030.000.000 last year, which, however, included supplementary deficiency and emergency appropriations. FEEDING AMERICAN ARMY DOMINIONS' CONTRIBUTIONS (Real. 0.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 8 Australia and New Zealand will supply the American forces in 1943 with five times the 1942 quantity of vegetables, meat and other foods under reciprocal lend-lease, states the Office of War Information. On a population basis both contributed nearly 91b. of fruits and vegetables per head in 1942, compared with United States shipments of similar foods to all areas of 41b. per head.

HEAVY TRAIN BOOKINGS The demand for seats and sleepers on south-bound trains during the Easter period has been very heavy, and the reservations staff at both the Auckland railway station and the tourist office have had difficulty in coping with tho extra number of bookings during the last few days. Additional trains will be run this week-end to accommodate extra passengers, leaving for Wellington at 3.30 p.m. to-day and to-morrow, and at 6 p.m. on Sunday. A special Whangarei express will depart from Auckland at 9.15 a.m. to-day, to-mor-row and on Monday. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE "There is no reason why private enterprise should adopt a defeatist attitude as a result of war controls," said Mr. J. F. Johnston, retiring president, at the annual meeting of the Bureau of Importers yesterday. Importers and others, however, had the right to assure themselves that any new controls introduced were due to the exigencies of war and were not political. "We all know that there is no substitute for private enterprise," added Mr. Johnston, "and much of our post-war prosperity will depend on tho expansion of private enterprise to create that increase in our national wealth that alone can compensate for the loss and destruction caused by war."