The Origin And Present Activity Of The Institute Of Pacific Relations PDF Download

Excerpt from The Origin and Present Activity of the Titute of Pacific Relations: Together With Some Facts Regarding the American Council of the Institute It does, however, aspire to serve the peoples of the Pacific countries and indirectly their governments by undertaking studies of economic, social and political problems, particularly of those matters which seem chiefly to endanger the friendly relations of governments and peoples. As a means to this end, the Institute holds biennial Conferences, promotes and co-ordinates research by other agencies, conducts research through its own Secretariat and endeavors to stimulate the mood of inquiry regarding Pacific problems on the part of the public generally. The First Conference The First Conference of the Institute held in 1925 was brought about by the initiative of a small group of men in Honolulu, primarily concerned with their own position as a possible center of conflict in the Pacific and discerning the need of some agency that would promote better understandings between east and west. At first they sought an existing agency to promote conferences and act as a clearing house for the interchange of information. It soon appeared, however, that these functions, if properly conceived and organized, would have an even wider scope than had been contemplated; and that their usefulness would be enlarged if support were drawn not from any one group of interests but rather from the whole community in each of the Pacific countries. Accordingly, without losing the valuable personal elements to which the original conception of the Institute was due, its organization was broadened to such an extent as to make it more truly representative of each country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.