IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
ADDRESS BY MR HUGHES. MELBOURNE, September 30. In the House of Representatives Mr Hughes, in the.fulfilment of his promise, addressed the House on the work of tho Imperial Conference, emphasising that he had not committed Australia to any expenditure and that everything that had been done was subject to Parliament’s approval. Referring to the Pacific and Australia's relations with Japan, he asked members not to forget that unless Japan was content to be stagnant in the backwater she must have room to expand. This was the modern riddle of the sphinx for which an answer must be found. Referring to the abandonment of a preliminary Pacific Conference Mr Hughes, said he saw no hope of disarmament until the Pacific problems bad been settled, and this would only be done by a modus vivendi satisfactory to oamin, America, and Australasia. Mr Hughes concluded by statin it that peace in the r'aeific means peace for the Empire and the world.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 18
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