South Pacific
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Conference
In Retrospect
COMMENT by an American who wa an observer of the South Pacifi Conference in Suva in May:— “I cannot see a great deal of benefit except as advertising for the Commisi sion; and it seems to me that the Corrr mission itself is growing weighty witfj ideas that are too vague and nebulous fo! a working programme.
“Most of all, I think it is folly to hole the Polynesians down to the level of thl Melanesian races, who have had so littld in educational and cultural advantagesa “I am wondering why you have no com ment to make regarding that Indian whl was appointed on the Fijian delegation after considerable wrangling. Delegatee were to be drawn from among ‘indigenoui residents’ of Islands groups, and it insisted that the Indians were indigenou< to Fiji. The wording evidently will haw to be changed to ‘indigenous races.’ ”