PEACE OF PACIFIC

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 6

PEACE OF PACIFIC

REGIONAL PACT SUGGESTED FULL INQUIRY INTO ALL DISPUTES TO INFORM THE PUBLIC B.v Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N,Z. Cable Association (Received August IG, 8.15 p.m.) WILLIAMBTOAVN, August 15. Mr Duncan Hall, of Sydney University, in an interview, said 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. Mr Hall maintained that what the present situation in the Pacific required was a regional pact which the parties to the Washington (Conference would agree to refer all disputes to a permanent commission of inquiry, the report of which would not be binding,- but would permit public opinion in various countries to explore the facts and give calrti consideration to the possibilities of amicable adjustment. The parties concerned should agree not to resort to hostilities while the commission WaS investigating. Mr 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 in Syracuse University.