JUSTICE IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 6

JUSTICE IN CHINA

BRITISH MINISTER’S ASSURANCE AMERICAN DETERMINATION TO HALT AGGRESSION. AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSIBILITIES GROWING. ißy Telegraph-—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 20. The British Minister of State in the Far East, Mr Duff Cooper, in an exclusive interview with the United Press of America in Singapore, said he was convinced any arrangement Washington might make with Tokio would provide full justice for China. The United States was determined to halt aggression. The independence and integrity of the Pacific must be maintained, he said. Mr Duff Cooper said Australia’s responsibilities in the Pacific and. the world were growing constantly. /Australia was on the threshold of a leading role among the nations and of expansion similar to that of the United States at the close of the Civil War. • The Washington correspondent of the United Press says the French Ambassador, M. Henry Haye, has asked the United States, during the current conversations with Japan, to seek the withdrawal of Japanese forces from French Indo-China. The Secretary of States. Mr Hull, is said to have informed him that the problem could not be taken up because the current Ameri-can-Japanese talks had been instituted at the request of the Japanese Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, and were not negotiations.