FRICTION IN THE PACIFIC.
DOWNIE STEWART STARTLES INSTITUTE COMPETITIVE BATTLESHIP BUILDING. STUDY OF CAUSES NEEDED. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) BANFF, August 27. The former Finance Minister of New Zealand, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, startled members of the Institute of Pacific Relations at a farewell dinner, by declaring that the institute might well have discussed the present feverish building of battleships by great nations on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. He said that if causes of friction were studied by the institute, the building of war fleets could not be properly ignored and should be taken into consideration before serious events occurred. He mentioned the seething cauldron in Europe and said he felt that while the situation in the Pacific wns alarming enough, it was not so gloomy as in the Old World. He hoped the Institute would be afforded an opportunity to study the insistent causes of conflict which, were bringing about the threat of war. The sessions have concluded.
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Wairarapa Age, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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