PACIFIC RELATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19528, 10 July 1925, Page 9

PACIFIC RELATIONS

PROBLEM OF MIGRATION. “NATURAL RIGHT OF THE WORLD.*’ Pr*«* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. HONOLULU, July 8. Speaking at the conference of the Institute on Pacific Relations, Mr Ta-ohen, the principal of the Peking University, scorned the exclusion laws, “which,” he said, “are unjust, because one pf the principal grounds of discrimination is ‘raco colour.’ Migration is "fcho na/tural right of the world. It is a common possession. No people can be justified in withholding unused lands which other people can use and which they need urgently.” Mr Ta-Chcn remarked further that it was said that the Chinese were not assimilable. “It is nearer the truth,” he said, “to say that no serious attempt has ever been made in any country of the Pacific at any time to assimilate the Chinese.” ~ Mr Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of -the Stanford University, California, paid a tribute to the institute when addressing the Rotary Club. Ho said that, although unofficial and informal, the institute was nevertheless destined to become a permanent and effective instrument for moulding public opinion throughout the world.—Renter.