"NOT INEVITABLE"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 14

"NOT INEVITABLE"

CONFLICT WITH JAPAN

MR. W. NASH'S VIEW

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October -'J. "I do not think a conflict with Japan is inevitable," said Mr. Walter Nash, M.f1. for Ilutt, who returned by the Aorangi after attending the Conference of (he Institute of Pacific Relations and oilier conferences in Canada. He said that while at tho moment the problem between Japan, China, and the Western world seemed insoluble, he thought there was a way out. It must bo solved by rational negotiation between the countries concerned. If the right procedure were followed and the military spirit not allowed to predominate he was.of tho opiuiou that Japan would once more link up with the League of Nations. Mr. Nash said that in spite of the progress made in the United States with tho national recovery scheme, he was satisfied that President Roosevelt had hardly started along the road of solving the economic problem. While President Roosevelt had tho courage to face his country's problems, the difficulties he Would have to face in the next six months were greater than ho had faced yet and greater than those which any President before him had had to face. Mr. Nash said he was confident that President Roosevelt would face them.