SHOULD THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY BE RENEWED?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2283, 31 May 1921, Page 4

SHOULD THE ANGLO-JAPAN-ESE TREATY BE RENEWED?

A most interesting presentatio: of the ease against the renewal o the Anglo-Jnpanese Treaty, writtc: by John A. BrnilsforJ, appears i: the last issue of Stead’s, May 14tl He points out that not a single argu ment in favour of an alliance wit Japan has been put forward, eithe in Parliament, or in the press o Australia. There have been abund ant arguments for coming to an un derstanding with Japan, in order t avoid wax', and the disastrous roc of armaments, but not a single rea son given for a military alliance yet it is to renew what is essential ]y a military alliance that Mr Hugh es has secured a free hand froi Parliament. Mr Brailsford ask whether Great Britain can renethis military alliance- with Japa without proclaiming herself an cr emy, of both China and* the Unite States. The alliance gives Japa British backing in China, and Jap anese and American policies in thr country are diametrically opposei The question of Yap is if very mine one. In conclusion he says: —“AT want, no sordid military allianci based on mistrust, and upholding ir justice and violence. We do wax open, round-table conferences, n< only with Japan, but with the Ur it-ed States and China, and all pe( pies interested in the Pacific —cor ferences that would strive to adjiu the disputes now threatening to ir volve us in a war far more bitte more inhuman, than the great tn gedy recently ended.”