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* * States, Australia, and New Zealand met at Honolulu last August their purpose was to organize and to consult. It was not anticipated that spectacular declarations of policy on Pacific security problems would re? sult. Indeed, the Foreign Ministers themselves, as well as the Australian Prime Minister, were at pains to make this clear. The fact was that though the proceedings were a direct outgrowth of the Pacific security treaty signed by the three nations at the same time as the Japanese peace treaty in September 1951, they were taking place against the general background of a wider Pacific area, composed of nations which were Asian rather than European in origin, and which were at once watchful and suspicious of what these three English-speaking powers were doing in the name of Pacific security. Gonsidered in this light, the Honolulu conference may be judged to have been a success. The lack of tact which might have been exhibited in such a situation was remarkably absent. Such opposition as was aroused ?notably by Philippine Opposition leaders and by some sections of the London press?was born from feelings of being left out rather than from any thoughtlessness displayed at the conference. The meetings went through with apparent smoothness, and in three days from August 4 to 6 the machinery of a Pacific Defense Gouncil was brought into being. The foreign policy representatives of the three nations flew home to their respective governments, and there was an atmosphere of mutual satisfaction with the results that had been achieved. |
