BIG INCREASES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1943, Page 2

BIG INCREASES

IN POST=WAR POPULATION NEEDED BY PACIFIC DOMINIONS c PROBLEMS OF CO-OPERATION IN PEACE. OCCUPATION OF JAPAN ESSENTIAL. (Special Australian Correspondent.) ’■'(Received This Day; 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Post-war populations of five millions for New Zealand and twenty millions for Australia will be essential if the security of the two countries is to he maintained in the face of the rising racial feeling in Hie Pacific. These figures are given in a recent. London book publication: “China and the Far East and the Future,” which makes a comprehensive survey of the problems of the war against Japan and is arousing keen interest in Australia.

The author 1 is a former reader in law and politics at the University of Hong Kong, Mr George W. Keeton. His figure of twenty millions as a desirable population for Australia had been mentioned previously by a Commonwealth Government spokesman. New Zealand, Australia and Britain must maintain the closest possible association with America in the Pacific, declares Mr Keeton. Without one Pacific policy for all the English-speak-ing peoples, any peace settlement would collapse rapidly. “This is not a one-sided bargain,” adds Mr Keeton. “Without the Dominions and, the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East, America’s security in the Pacific would be precarious. Neither can Japan be left to herself after her defeat. It will not be until foreign .troops are actually stationed in Japan’s main cities that the certainty of his superiority over all other races will desert the Japanese. It is essential that he should make this discovery if he is ever to become a useful member of international society. It will also be necessary to supersede Japan's existing system of education by one less virulently anti-foreign. Consequently, the Allied powers must undertake the task of educating the nation in accordance with entirely different ethical standards from the present.” Mr Keeton warns that no peace must “ever let Japan down lightly,” and that unless, at the expiration of the war, the British and American naval power in the Pacific is unchallenged, any peace will be merely an armistice. The Allies must destroy Japan’s fleet and military power and compel her to relinquish all her conquests since 1895. i

By this means the Japanese political system would be destroyed and lasting benefits conferred on the world and ultimately on Japan herself. Adroitly, Japan has given the Allies a clear choice of alternatives in the Pacific war, says Mr Keeton. These are: — (1) Complete destruction -of the Japanese menace, involving a great and lengthy struggle. (2) An early compromise peace with Japanese liberal interests. The second course, says Mr Keeton, would be followed by renewed Japanese preparations to pursue the war at the first favourable opportunity. Further it would encourage in the Japanese the dangerous philosophy that they had faced a world-wide coalition and remained undefeated, and that their subtlety had again outwitted the despised Occidentals. Such a peace would simply ensure trouble for the future.