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CONVENTION AT BOSTON. BOSTON, Thursday. To-day’s plenary session of the Rotary Convention heard a discussion of international affairs by a French delegate, M. Mahrire du Perry, who urged the stabilisation of currencies, a return to gold, and an international Customs armistice. The Convention also heard an address on the international service of Rotary by Mr Frank Milner, of New Zealand. Mr Milner’s subject was the new world order from the Rotary standpoint. He called unon Rotary to pool all its moral resources to swing America into a fuller and more generous association with Europe, and widen America’s participation in world responsibility and the stabilisation of peace. lie urged that a middle course must be found between the Jingoism of nationalism and excessive internationalism, which ran to pacificism. He called upon the new world order to indict war as an anachronism and relic of barbarism.
The convention elected Mr John Nelson, of Montreal, international president. Mr Rufus Chapin, of Chicago, was re-elected treasurer.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 June 1933, Page 3
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