WORLD AFFAIRS DISCUSSED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19569, 16 August 1933, Page 7

WORLD AFFAIRS DISCUSSED

NEED FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL MEETING AT BANFF United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BANFF (Alberta), August 14. Canada is deeply concerned regarding major external issues, which seriously affect the United States, and conversely any attack made upon the Dominion whioh might seem likely to result in giving any non-British people a foothold here, would almost certainly bring the United States into action on Canada’s side. Sir Robert Falconer, president of the fifth biennial Conference of Pacific Relations, declared on Monday that war between the United States and Canada would be a moral attrocity, "The world recently has had an unhappy experience of inter-governmental conferences,” declared Mr Jerome D. Greene, professor of international politics, of the University College of Wales, replying to Sir Robert Falconer’s address of welcome. This experience justified the assertion that where highly controversial Issues were concerned, a meeting of plenipotentiaries committed to the alternative of definite binding action or failure, were almost foredoomed to failure. "The process by which international differences can be settled involved two factors: (1) The harmonising of views through new information, and the removal of misunderstanding; (2) mutual sacrifices and concessions, whether actuated by expediency or desire for peace and justice.” Dr. Inazo Notobe, chairman of the Japanese delegation, declared: “A clear understanding where nations stand on problems that harass them to-day, is what the world wants. It is my privilege to assure you in the name of the Japanese delegation, that the Institute shall have our earnest cooperation. Dr. Hu Shih, professor of philosophy, declared that members of the Institute must rise above their national prejudice, and seek to understand their own national problems, in the light of those of other peoples with whom they live and have commerce and relations. SIR HERBERT SAMUEL'S VIEWS. TREATMENT OF PACIFIC PROBLEMS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 15, 7.0 p.m.) BANFF, August 14. Sir Herbert Samuel, chairman of the British Group of the Institute of Pacific Relations at an inaugural dinner on Monday night, said slowly' and painfully the world was learning that the philosophy of conflict, combat, and war is wrong, that each country prospers best in a prosperous world, civilisation is too materialistic, and the economic side of life tends to dominate the whole. Pacific problems, he urged, should be treated by themselves. Problems of population, production, consumption and tnancies especially, should also be recognised. These problems must be linked of necessity with the similar problems of the rest of the world. “Why,” Sir Herbert Samuel asked, “should the globe be ever the scene of conflict.”