walter nash, the secretary of the new zealand labor party, was at the second conference of the institute of pacific relations in 1927. walter nash would go to become the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of finance, the minister of customs, a member of parliament for hutt, and eventually the prime minister of new zealand from 1957 to 1960. this is a great demonstration of how these roundtable groups successfully advance their own members into high positions of political power. problems of the pacific. proceedings of the second conference of the institute of pacific relations, honolulu, hawaii, july 15 to 29, 1927 edited by j. b. condliffe:   sofpacifi0000jbed walter nash, secretary of the new zealand labor party, wellington; chairman of the group.   r_nash
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