IN THE PACIFIC

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 7

IN THE PACIFIC

PRESERVATION OF PEACE MR C. WHITNEY’S PROPOSAL CONFERENCE OF NATIONS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 The president of Pan-American Airways, Mr C. V. Whitney, on his return from an air tour in which he visited New Zealand and Australia, suggested that the United States should call a conference of Pacific nations to discuss means of preserving peace. “ I predict that out of such a conference would come peace lasting for many years,” said Mr Whitney, “ because if Japan’s intentions are peaceful she will have a chance to prove it, and, if not, other nations will have a chance to get together for their mutual welfare. “ There is no question but that it would be a great loss to us if we awoke one morning to find that the great resources of Australia, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines had been diverted elsewhere, and also, perhaps, to find that other happily free people like ourselves were free no longer. “If these things are not worth making an effort to preserve now, when they still can be preserved, then we may soon have to fight for tnem, when the odds have turned very much against us.”