"Within the Pacific area there possessions consist of small island, with but a scanty population. Some the island peoples are rapidly jing out; others are increasing in ymbers, Economic development in these dependencies hax been. unequal. The forms of government vary from the light prote torate through several types of mandates, to the absolute possessions of the, great Powers. Nor fare the Pacific dependencies _confined to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean, From the responsbilities of the Russian government in the far north to New Zealand's Maori problem in the far south, there are large sections. of the population under more or Jess paternalistic control.
"Obviously the government of the Pacific dependencies involves questions of ceonomie development, Labour conditions, migration, land tenures, and the treatment: of subject races, beyond the usual political problems of government. Phe peoples concerned are, in the very nature of the case, too weak: to make effective protest. The problems, therefore, are regarded by many people as of little immediate or urgent importance. On the other hand, several of the countries concerned take their responsibilities seriously enough to regard this as a major Pacific problem. It clearly has a place in any picture of international rela-the Pacific, if only because the Pacific Ocean has been one of the main theatres of imperialism."
—United Press.
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