• THE PROBLEM OF PEACEFUL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC AREA
By H. F. Angus
This useful little work (Oxford Uni- versity Press, 6s.) is not so much an independent study as a survey of the Work of the Institute of Pacific Relations in its bearing upon the special problem of Peaceful Change. Part I, covering " Research incidental to definite demands or suggestions for Peaceful Change," deals with the problems of China's claims for the restoration of Sovereign rights, for tariff autonomy, for the abolition of extraterritoriality and the rendition of settlements and concessions, as well as Japan's pleas for an outlet for its population, for raw materials, markets and so on. Part II comprises various highly important lines of" Basic Research having an indirect bearing on the Problem of Peaceful Change," such as land-utilisation in the various countries bordering the Pacific, Popu- lation and Migration, Agrarian Problems, Industrialisation, International Invest- ment, Trade and Tariffs, Standards of Living and Control and Planning ; and the last part describes the special suggestions worked out in connexion with the Institute in relation to the establishment of Peace Machinery for the Pacific and the role of education in Inter-Pacific Relations. A concluding chapter explains the reasons for the hope entertained that the special con- ditions obtaining in the Pacific area might make for an easier approach to the Problems of Peaceful Change than in the Atlantic area, as well as for the breakdown of those hopes, ending with the regretful admission, that, "although the Institute had made it clear that human welfare demanded international planning and this planning would carry peaceful change with it, it has not estab- lished that there was any likelihood on the part of the existing political entities to commit themselves to such a policy of planning, still less that the mass of popular opinion was likely to demand, encourage or even tolerate such participation."
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