LORD NORTHCLIFFE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10964, 28 July 1921, Page 6

LORD NORTHCLIFFE

OBJECTS OF HIS TOUR VALUE OF IMPERIAL CONFER ENCE EMPHASISED. METHODS COMPARED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 27, 9.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jxdv 26. Ford Northcliffe, interviewed, said he did not know what his plans would be when he arrived in Australia He wanted to see the peoples of Australia more than the Governments, and did not desire banquets or receptions. He expected to spend a week in New Zealand, then three- weeks in Australia, afterwards going to the Philippines.

Referring to the Imperial Conference. Lord Northcliffe said that their part in bringing up the .Pacific question ' was undoubtedly beneficent. It was an inr valuable thing for them to get together and discuss matters pf close interest. President Harding’s conference call was highly commendable. He could only hope it would accomplish the end desired as speedily as the Americans expected it would. “Americans have not yet,” Lord Northcliffe added, “had as mud experience as we in seeing the politicians of sixteen different nationalities bottled together behind closed doors. They don’t settle a series of difficult questions within forty-eight hours at Washington. The conference delegates will probably meet in many cities throughout the country, even meeting up in Canada, hut after a considerable period of time it can he expected that they will solve their problems.”