POST-WAR OUTLOOK IN PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 99, 21 January 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR OUTLOOK IN PACIFIC

New Policies Advocated (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 20. Post-war populations of 5,000.000 for New Zealand and 20.000.000 for Australia will be essential if the security of the two countries is to be maintained iu the face of the rising racial feeling in the Pacific. These figures are given in a recent book published in London, "China, the Far East, and the Future,” which makes a comprehensive survey of the problems of the M’ar against Japan and is arousing keen interest in Australia. The author is a former reader in law politics at the university in Hong Kong, George W. Keeton. His figure of the desuable population for Australia had been mentioned previously by Commonwealth Government spokesmen. New Zealand, Australia and Britain must maintain the closest possible association with A,merica in the Pacific, declares Mr. Keeton. Without one Pacific policy for all the Englishspeaking peoples, any peace settlement, would collapse rapidly. This is not a one-sided bargain, he adds. Without the Dominions and the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East, Americn's security in the I acific would be precarious. “Neither can Japan be left to herself after her defeat,” lie writes. "It m-H1 not be till foreign troops are actually stationed in Japan s main cities that certainty of her superiority over ait other races will desert the Japanese. It is essential that he should make this discovery if he is ever to become a useful member of international society. ft will also lie necessary to supersede Japan’s existing system of education by one less virulently anti-foreign. Consequently, the Allied Powers must undertake the task of educating the nation in accordance with entirely different ethical standards from the present.” Enemy Offer Choice. Mr. Keeton gives the warning that no peace must ever let Japan down lightlv. and that unless at the expiration of the war British and, American naval power in the Pacific is unchallenged, any peace will be merely an armistice. The Allies must destroy Hie Japanese licet, nnd military noiver, and compel her to relinquish all het- conquests made since IS'J.i. By this means the Japanese political system would be destroyed, and lasting benefits confcri’-cd on the world, and ultimately on Japan herself. Japan has adroitly given the Allies a clear choice of alternatives in the Pacific war, says Mr. Keeton. These are: (1) The complete destruction of the Japanese menace, involving a great and lengthv struggle, and (2) an early compromise peace with Japanese liberal Interests. The second course, says Mr. Keeton, would be followed by renewed Japanese preparations to pursue the war at the first favourable opportunity. Further, it would encourage in the Japanese llie dangerous philosophy that they had faced a world-wide coalition and remained undefeated, and that their subtlety had again outwitted Ihe despised Occidentals. Such a peace would simply ensure trouble for t.hc future.