Pan-Pacific Union

[2] It was directed by men of every nation about the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of bringing the countries into close and more friendly relationship and understanding.

[4] Member states included Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Hawaii, India, Japan, Java, New Zealand, Philippines, Siam and the Pan-American Union.

T. E. Dunne of New Zealand and Percy Hunter of Australia took the leadership in their countries and branches of the Union were established with government backing.

[5] As the years, passed not only the premiers of Australia and New Zealand, but also the heads of other Pacific governments began to take an interest in the work of the Pan-Pacific Union.

It was the motion film of this Pan-Pacific inaugural ceremony in Hawaii that was the first bit of entertainment Mr. Wilson asked for in his sick chamber.

[3] Other heads of Pacific governments not only accepted honorary presidencies of the Pan-Pacific Union, but gave pledges of their own cooperation and that of their countries.

The premiers of Australia and New Zealand immediately cabled that their governments were making appropriations to the Pan-Pacific Union, and in Washington, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Stephen G. Porter of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House, pledged that the United States would also make appropriation, which it did for the amount asked, US$9,000.

The Pan-American Union did everything in its power to have the Pacific coast Latin-American states send delegates to the Pan-Pacific Educational Conference in August.

In the Pan-Pacific Union, all countries were equal, in honor preferring one another and uniting only in those efforts which all could agree were for the benefit and advancement of the whole Pacific.