FRIENDSHIP TOWARD BRITAIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 2

FRIENDSHIP TOWARD BRITAIN

Sentiments Of Japanese Man Dunedin, June 30. Sentiments of friendship toward Britain are expressed in a letter received by a. Dunedin resident from a prominent businessman in Japan. “May I take. <a.dvail'tage of this great occasion in English history to offer you my heart’Z'st congratulations on the Coronation of Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth,’ he wrote a.t the time of the Coronation. “We in Japan appreciate specially the auspicious significance- whipli. Their Miajesties’ Coronation h-a-s- to British people today throughout ’ths Empire, and, indeed, throughout the world. We aro further convinced -that monarchs bearing such, illustrious names in English history will be worthy of 'the highest traditions of the- British rhronf. whose age-old stability we in Japan so earnestly look to, in collaboration with our own Imperial Family, as a bulwark in east and west against dangerous influences which, in their pernicious aims today, have no respect for those very traditions which are the foundation of English and Japanese solidarity in a troublous world to-day, and which give us those common ideals that, are in themselves a guarantee' of our lasting friendship.”