JAPAN'S GOOD FAITH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 5

JAPAN'S GOOD FAITH.

NO TREACHEROUS PLANS. SIR JOHN SALMOND'S VIEW. PACIFIC PROBLEM SETTLED. I ) I <Br Cable.—l , rets CapTrljfh*.) lUri-ctred 'J.'M a.tu.i SYDXE'S'. this day, .luhti Salmond, interviewed in [ rejiurd to the aehievementa of the Wash, i ington i.'onierenct, said it was nothing , short of marvellous. He expressed a , firm belief in Japan's good t'nith and . honest desire for intcrnationsl tvelfare. - The conception that Janan hnrboured . truasherous plans of aggression was unff'.inded. The impressinn Icfl on lilE luliul was that she recognised ilir< hfr ; interests were inseDSrable from peace. ■ and sha wanted [ware honestly ami sincerely. , The Pacific uroblem !i:is I* , "! pratti- , eally settled at the uonfereufe. .'lapan's 1 attitude wat- a matter worthy of high . ci.mmendation. He described the . dramatic moment when Mr. ( iiarlcs Hughes annouuerd America's uroposed , naval reduction policy, which caused aa immense effect. Sir John believed iliai the Washing- [ I toil Xaval Treaty put an end to inwen- . ! sate competition in naval armaments. , i The Anglo-.Teuanese Alliariee had been , en.cessfiilly supplanted: this remcveil t America's suspicions, and made for a , wider and more aatk-foctorv scheme. However, no-val defence in tlip Pacific [ had not become unnecessary. Australia . prid New Zealand should take a fair share of the maintenance of the British [ force? that would still be found necessary, but tiie policy o! painting .lapan \ . black fostered « feeling opposite to that . requisite for the maintenance of good-1 \ will of nations. j It «s not HUplv thai the Washins- . ton Conference would have any immedi- , j ate Ruccessors beeau»e of r.he complete- ' j neKs of the work done there. TTi<» re- ': suits Tverc of profouml satisfec-1 \ , tion to all the T'owere eonoerned, mor» j cspeciallv Au»tralnf)i«. interested «« it w«r in Pacific problems. — (A. and X.Z.)