He urged the City to give its fullest ce-operation in affording this information because Chatham House would more than repay them in Kind, In' conclusion, the Prince ct Wales referred in graceful terms to Lady Bailey's gallant exploits in_aviation, Viscount Grey said that Sir Abe Bailey had shown not only gen sity but wisdom and discernment in his gift. He announced that Lord Hailsham, v.c, xc. the late Lord Chancellor, would head the delegation which the Institute is sending to Japan in the autumn to attend the meetings of the Institute of Pacific Relations, fact that the Labour. Party Foreign' Affairs, referred, to. th Mr. J. H. Thomas, Minister for
tributed £260 a year to the funds of the Royal Institute of Int national Affairs, He added that he had just received a message from Australia offering to contribute £1,500 a year, He associated himself with the toast of the health of Sir Abe and Lady Bailey on bebait of the Labour Party.
In reply Sir Abe Bailey referred proudly to the activities of his wife in aviation. He then proceeded to review the aims and ideals of the Institute; which, he said, had been founded to cultivate an internations] outlook and to assist the peoples of the world to regard each other natural friends, it Frederick Whyte on China it, Frederick Whyte, Advisor to the Prince of Wales, said that at one time there was danger of the Royal Institute of International its becoming an academy of highbrows, splitting hairs on mat: ters which' no other men understood. "But the gathering of practical Dasiness-men present is sufficient refutation of the charge that they are merely intellectuals pursuing bubble:
Referring to China, Sir Frederick Whyte said that during the past 38 years they had been witnessing the tumult of a surging tide which seemed to carry everything before it, A gradual process of exystal-
replaced the tumult of that surging and stabilization had now tide. They were even witnessing a process whereby formerly irresponsible leaders of revolt were endeavouring painfully, perhaps unwillingly, to transform themselves into constructive statesmen, Sir Frederick Whyte suggested that the origin of the movements Asia lay in the countries in which the principle and practice of popular government had reached their, highest states. The peoples
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