PACIFIC NATIONS.
CONFERENCE SUGGESTED,
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. Mr C. V. Whitney, on his return from the South Sea's and the East, suggested that the United States should call a conference of Pacific nations to discuss the. means of preserving peace. “I predict that out of such a conference would come a peace lasting many years,” he said, “because if Japan’s intentions are peaceful she will have a chance to prove it. If not, other nations will have the chance to get together for their mutual welfare. “There is no question that .it would be a great loss to us if we invoke one morning to find the great resources of Australia, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines diverted elsewhere and also perhaps find other happily free* people like ourselves free ho longer. If these things are not worth the utmost effort to preserve now, when they still can be preserved, then we may soon have to fight for them when the odds have turned very much against us.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 7
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