PAKEHA AND MAORI

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23595, 3 September 1938, Page 14

PAKEHA AND MAORI

SPIRIT OF FRIENDLINESS AMERICAN PROFESSOR IMPRESSED VALUABLE LESSON TO BE LEARNED (SrEciAL to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. "America could learn a valuable lesson from the real spirit of friendliness which I have seen exists between the white people in New Zealand and the Maoris." stated Professor S. R. Harlow, of Northampton, Massachusetts, who arrived at Auckland by the Monterey from San Francisco for the purpose of making a tour of New Zealand under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

During the Great War, Professor Harlow said, he had seen much of the New Zealand soldiers, and he had been very impressed with the relations between the pakeha and the Maori. Professor Harlow said he had a special interest in New Zealand for this reason. At the time of the outbreak of the Great War he was chairman of the Department of Sociology of the International College at Smyrna in Turkey, and during the Gallipoli campaign he was on the staff of an American Red Cross hospital at Constantinople. Both here and later on in the interior he had seen many New Zealand prisoners of war. Because he knew Turkish, he had been able to talk with the guards of the prisoners at the Affion Kar Hissar camp, and at the same time to talk with the New Zealand and Australian prisoners. Later, when the United States entered the war, Professor Harlow went with the American forces to France, and at Paris he met a number of New Zealand officers. He was asked to address the New Zealand Division upon his experiences in Turkey. Again, after the Battle of Le Quesnoy. on the night of the armistice, he had taken part in a soldiers' gathering at which a New Zealand bishop (Professor Harlow was unable to recall his name) Dreached to the soldiers. Professor Harlow also spoke. "I took as my text 'A New Heaven and a New Earth,"' said Professor Harlow. "Of course, there has been no such thing since then. We are as we were before. I have, however, never met finer men on earth than the New Zealanders." The Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, said Professor Harlow, had been established for the purpose of building up a better understanding between the college students of the world, especially to discover by what means they could co-operate to prevent another world catastrophe.

From New Zealand, Professor Harlow is to carry out the purposes of (he endowment during visits to Australia. India. Palestine. Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, and England.