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conference, Dennery was simply described as professor of economics at
the Institute des hautes études internationales in Paris.^198
In the preface to the conference’s proceedings, Bruno Lasker and
William L. Holland, the latter being Condliffe’s successor as research
secretary at the International Secretariat of the IPR, observed that
the presence of French members and that of Dutch members, the
Netherlands-Netherlands Indies Council having just been admitted as
the Dutch national unit of the IPR, had clearly highlighted at the con-
ference the new pattern of cooperative economic relationships between
groups and nations that had emerged across the Pacific region:
The first appearance of two new member groups of the Institute helped to
throw into sharper relief than had been possible at previous conferences
this pattern of economic relationships: both France and the Netherlands
are not only great colonial powers in the Pacific area, but, in addition, have
historical and material interests in other sections of that area, particularly
the Far East. In both cases a single group represented the mother coun-
try as well as the dependency—French Indo-China and the Netherlands
East Indies. It so happened the two French and four Dutch members
also brought to the conference a truly scholarly temper and knowledge,
extending far beyond their own national interests, of the affairs of the
Pacific as a whole.^199Whatever issues there may have been regarding its earlier eligibility,
recalling here the fact that the preface to the record of the proceed-
ings at Banff stated that the French national committee was still in the
process of formation, at Yosemite on August 12, 1936, the IPR’s gov-
erning body, namely, the Pacific Council, ‘unanimously voted to grant
(^199) Lasker and Holland, Problems of the Pacific, 1933, viii, x, 454.
(^198) ‘Appendix 1: List of Conference Members, Observers, Staff, and Committees,’
in Lasker and Holland, Problems of the Pacific, 1933, 454; ‘Appendix 1: Conference
Membership and Committees,’ in Holland and Mitchell, eds., Problems of the Pacific,
1936 , 436, and ‘Appendix V: National Councils and Secretaries of the Institute of Pacific
Relations,’ in Holland and Mitchell, eds., Problems of the Pacific, 1936, 455. See also
Étienne Dennery, Foules d’Asie. Surpopulation japonaise, expansion chinoise, émigra-
tion indienne (Paris: A. Colin, 1930); Étienne Dennery, Asia’s Teeming Millions: And
the Problem for the West, trans. John Peile (London: Jonathan Cape, 1931), and Charles
Robequain, review of Foules d’Asie. Surpopulation japonaise, expansion chinoise, émigration
indienne, by Étienne Dennery, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 30, nos. 1–2
(1930): 182–4, http://www.persee.fr/doc/befeo_0336-1519_1930_num_30_1_3195.