WAY NOT TAKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 5

WAY NOT TAKEN

TOWARDS BETTER RELATIONS

JAPAN AND UNITED STATES.

SUPPOSED REFERENCE TO CHINA.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) TOKIO, June 3. The Prime Minister, Admiral Yonai, in a Press interview, said: “There is a way of improving the aggravated relations between Japan and the United States, but it is neither being considered nor taken. I am not in a position to disclose the nature of this way to better relations.” This is interpreted to mean that Japan does not intend to conciliate the United States by abandoning any of her policies towards China or other Far Eastern issues. DUTCH INDIES MR ARITA’S SUGGESTIONS. CONCERN OVER ECONOMIC STATUS. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) TOKIO, June 3. .The Foreign 'Minister, Mr H. Arita, said Japan’s concern was not confined to the maintenance of the political status quo of the Netherlands’ East Indies. In view of the resources of trade and industrial potentialities it was natural that Japan should be very seriously concerned over the economic status. It was true that the East Indies were connected with Europe as a Dutch possession, but they were also intimately bound up with the destiny of East Asia.

Mr Arita drew a picture of two nations, one with a small area, a large population witlj poor natural resources, the other large, thinly populated with good resources. He said: “Suppose a further situation is developed in which tariff walls, immigration restrictions and other barriers seriously impeded the normal flow of goods and commodities between .them. We can hardly expect absence of friction and conflict. I am afraid now that a few so-called Pacific questions may be traced to such contradictions and injustices.”