PROBLEMS OF 1930

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 11

PROBLEMS OF 1930

STUDY OF NATIONS SUGGESTED ROTARY PRINCIPLE Suggestions for the promotion of a knowledge of international affairs and thr, understanding of overseas interests were made by Mr. Frank Leonard in an address this afternoon to the Rotary Club. - The late arrival of the Niagara, explained Mr. Stanley Reid, president of the club, had prevented an address by Mr. E. J. Riches, one of two New Zealanders on the staff of the International Labour Office of the League of Nations. Mr. Leonard mentioned the immense economic changes and problems following the Great War. Developments in transport, trade and communication had, of necessity, brought about closer associations between the countries. Rotary rightly assumed that the individual was important; individual character invariably swayed the crowd and individuals were behind nations. The passing of diplomacy by the substitution of friendly conferences between leaders of nations was gratifyMentioning the progress of the efforts to build up the association between the British Empire and the United States, Mr. Leonard told of Walter Page, the energetic American promoter of goodwill between Englishspeaking countries. So great was his work that Britain placed a tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey. Rotary should take Page as an example, he said. The individual could help himself, enlarge his vision, follow the sixth Rotary principle of establishing goodwill, and make a point of communicating with a new Rotarian to an outside club each month. The cluu could educate its members on the problems discussed by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and could study the findings of the Pan-Pacific conferences at Tokyo and Honolulu. At the next conference in Sydney in March a strong delegation could attend to report to the clubs of New Zealand.