Ten Countries of the Pacific Delegates

Pacific Delegates to Study International Relationships

IT was announced from London on October 23. that Australia, New Zea land, Britain, Canada, United States, India. Holland. Fighting France, Russia and China, will send delegations to the conference called by the Institute of Pacific Relations (New York), which is to be held in Canada from December 4 to December 14. It was stated that Lord Hailey, a noted authority on colonial administration, would lead the British delegation.

Inquiries made in Australia did not show that any Australian institution has taken any interest in this conference, and it does not appear that any of the terri tories in the South Pacific have sent delegates.

The Institute publishes an excellent monthly journal called “Pacific Affairs.” which usually contains useful and valu able articles. But. generally, the whole organisation is redolent of “high brow” associations, and it does not appear to have served any practical purpose in this tough, work-a-day world. However, if it Tow can get sufficient backing in the United States, the Institute mav be able to give considerable help when the repre sentatives of the Pacific nations eventu ally sit at a peacetime table, and try to get some orderliness and sense into the relationships between all the manv countries and territories in and around the Pacific.