JAPAN & RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1941, Page 6

JAPAN & RUSSIA

MR MATSUOKA’S HOPES ADJUSTMENT OF RELATIONS ANTICIPATED. ; OVER-EAGERNESS AND HASTE DEPRECATED. Tty .mh —Pre« Associatlon—Copyr i j ßeceived This Ditv, LIO p.m.i • TOKIO, February 11. Replying in the Diet to suggestions iby members for the conclusion of a i ncn-aggressmu pact with Russia in j view of "Japan’s inability to obtain ; German and Italian help in the event 'of a Russo-Jajxinese war.” Mr. Matsui oka 'Foreign Minister! said We are [doing everything possible to adjust. : Russo-Japanese relations The Soviet ’ is shnv*tempered, for which reason it Jis taboo for ms to become.impatient in • dealing with them," Mr Mutstmka promised tt revision of Article .*■ of the Rome-Ilel'lin-Tokto r.iei, "If danger of our relations with tlic Soviet is overtaken by the worst eventuality." He said misgivings regarding the blocking of German and j Italian ar.l to Jtipati in the event of a , I'toss-m.Japanese war were understandj able, but .Article S, when it was fnrmui lated. envisaged an adjustment of all t Russo-Japanese ddliculties. He added "The atmosphere is fav- ! curable for an adjustment of relations, ' because the Soviet, seems to have rec.’gmsed Japan's true intentions to ; settle diiferonces in earnest. Russia [has also taken the atlitude of acceleraii ing the ccmcliistnn of a commercial ! pact, which was hopeless last year."