Japan Keen to Help

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 9

Japan Keen to Help

DISARMAMENT STRIVINGS

Enthusiasm in America

JAPAN and America have hailed the Dawes-MaeDonald disarmament speeches with enthusiasm, and the nations see in the utterances of these statesmen a new and definite cause for hope of a big advance in the direction of world peace. (United P.A. — Fly Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) (United Service)

WASHINGTON, Thursday. | The subject of naval armament was discussed on Thursday at a call by Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador in Washington, upon Chairman W. E. Borah, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The conversation was described later as general in scope, without hinging upon any definate proposition. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says:—“Two things stand out as a sequel to the speeches in England of Mr. C. G. Dawes and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. The first is that the question of the freedom of the seas will now not be discussed and probably have no part in any impending naval conference which may result from the conversations of the two statesmen.

“The second point is that considerable clarification must yet occur of the so-called yardstick for measuring the relative naval strengths, before there can be a complete understanding on the part of the people in all the countries concerned of the problems involved in true naval arms limitation. “It is clear that the United States Government is waiting for a more complete reaction in Europe and America before determining upon the next move.”

Editorial comment throughout the country is predominantly enthusiastic over the progress made toward goodwill by Mr. Dawes and Mr. MacDonald at their meeting. Newspapers like the “New York World” and the “Washington Post” deplore the fact that so much advance publicity was given to the speeches of the two leaders that the addresses themselves came as an anti-climax and apparently offered nothing new. Otherwise the Press is unqualified in its praise of the speeches. NEW HOPE FOR THE WORLD

The “Kansas City Star” says the speeches should bring new hope to the world.

JAPAN’S SUPPORT

The “Chicago Tribune” says the friendly exchanges undoubtedly express the spirit which animates the main body of the people of America and Britain and their common desire for peace and accord. The “Boston Herald” says: “The Geneva failure was due more to the methods than to the men. Let statesmen do it. It is hard to see why that policy should not produce valuable results.” The “Los Angeles Times” remarks that the correctness of Mr. Dawes’s statement when lie laid the responsibility for the Geneva failure on the shoulders of the naval experts cannot be challenged. The St. Paul Pioneer Press describes the speeches as a patiently sincere, straight-to-the-point, realistic and concrete advancement of naval disarmament. The “Milwaukee Journal” says: “It is not going beyond the legitimate conclusion to say that here is the most encouraging attempt made for years to find a basis for a. new and better order of international relations.”

BARON TANAKA PROMISES CO-OPERATION TOKYO OFFICIALS PLEASED (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Received 10.2 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thursday. The Prime Minister of Japan, Baron Giichi Tanaka, informed the United States Government on Thursday, through the United States Embassy

in Tokyo, that Japan is prepared to support measures looking toward a further reduction of armaments. A Tokyo report says that Japanese officials from the Prime Minister downwards are unanimously voicing the greatest satisfaction over the early declarations made by Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Dawes, as to the aspirations of the new Governments of Britain and America. They lead to the hope that an international conference on naval affairs will be expedited and successful. Japan is declared to be most ready to support the movement toward peace, thus relieving the burdens of the nations.