HANDS AROUND PACIFIC

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 5

HANDS AROUND PACIFIC

LEAGUE OF WHITE PEOPLES. TO RESIST JAPAN'S PROGRESS. SIR JOHN riWBDLAYS PROPOSAL (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received ll.:tO a.ni.i LONDON, March 7. ■ Sir John Findlay, lecturing at the University Commonwealth Club. Oxford, on! Pacific problems, emphasised Japan's phe- t nomenal growth in population, com- j inerce, and naval power, America and Canada shared Australasian opposition to ' the Asiatic influx, and South Africa, de- I spite her own coloured races, would also resist. Sot with standing all the Dominions' devotion to Britain they would p-> sibly sock unitedly an alliance with America, in the event of Britain showing <olera- j tion of an influx, which would lostroy I White Australasia. i He suggested a tripartite arrangement I rcveen Britain. America, tnd i1.i.i11.l iii Her which the l.isl-named wotiii) ag'cc to direct expansion in Siberii and Man.clnria instead of the Pacific countries ■ iialt up America and Japan lo forvgo their costly navies. It was imperative that the Australasian peoples should recognise the reality of the menace. He believed that. Japan was camouflag ing her naval expansion as directed to America, though in reality it. was aimed at Australasia.— (A, and X.Z. Cable.)