PACIFIC PACT PROPOSALS
JAPAN INTERESTED VAGUENESS OF MR LYONS Definite Reaction Impossible At Prsent Press Association —Copyright. (Received 1.50 p.m ) Tokio, May 19. Japan is interested in the Pacific Pact proposals, but the Foreign Office Spokesman made a statement to-day to the effect that definite reaction' was. impossible because Mr J. A. Lyons’s.! proposals were vague. “Australia through Mr Lyons, comes out boldly for a consistent unified Empire policy,” says the London. Daily Telegraph. “It is doubtful whether any other Dominion .could go so far owing to internal public opinion. “Co-ordination of the conclusions of the Imperial Conference will be of the greatest practical value to the Dominions, which are experiencing great difficulty in obtaining armaments from Britain owing to the industry being occupied fulfilling the British programme. It is a grave position at present and might be infinitely more serious in wartime. The development of munition factories similar to those being established in Australia may do more than make each Dominion independent of supplies from the United Kingdom and might prove a valuable auxiliary source of supply for Britain.” Non-aggression Pacts. “'Any project such as Mr Lyons suggests* may to a great extent stand or fall by the measure to which and the -spirit in which Japan is prepared to co-operate,” states the Times referring to the Pacific peace conference proposal. “Moreover, an (adequately comprehensive network of non-aggression pacts must presum. ably include Russia at the round table, at which China, the Soviet and Japan and neighbours may not to-day seem very likely, but the proposal cannot be ruled out as a permanent possibility. American interests in the Pacific may be less acute than when the Washington Trciaty was signed; nevertheless an all-round rapproachment in the Far East may be taken as the settled, if the still distant aim of American policy. “Yet given ail the goodwill possible the determining factor in a Far Eastern settlement is the. Japanese policy towards China. It is the acid test for British and American opinion alike, not merely as a matter of sentiment, but becaase it would, be impossible to devise a system such as Mr Lyons propounded unless it re-es-tablishes mutual Sino-Japanese confi die nee.’’
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 438, 20 May 1937, Page 5
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364PACIFIC PACT PROPOSALS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 438, 20 May 1937, Page 5
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