WITH CAUTION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 7

WITH CAUTION

ATTITUDE TO TALKS

Instant Solution Of Problems

Not Expected

Rec. 2 p.m. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29

Tne dramatic turn of events in the delivery of Prince Konoye's message to Mr. Roosevelt, and the President's talks with the Japanese Ambassador, Admiral Nomura, are viewed in Washington with caution. Best-informed circles do not see that these moves presage an immediate solution of the pressing problems between Japan and the democracies.

The Domei news agency, quoted in a Tokyo cable, declares that wellinformed circles in Tokyo are of the opinion that what Japan is aiming at under the prevailing complex of the international situation is the disposal of the China affair and the construction of an East Asia coprosperity sphere with the ultimate object of permanent peace in the Pacific. It is considered that, in consideration of the very delicate relations existing between Japan and the United States following the outbreak of the Russo-German war, Prince Konoye expressed Japan's firm conviction on this broad viewpoint in his message to Mr. Roosevelt.

The newspaper Chugai expressed the belief that the American-Jap-anese crisis would be settled amicably. From time immemorial there had not been a problem which could not be settled by mutual conversations between Japan and the United States.

The Japanese Cabinet has approved a programme to mobilise labour on a war footing and is also planning a broad expansion plan for the acceleration of self-sufficiency in vital defence materials.

President Roosevelt, in his Labour Day speech, will include an important statement on international affairs in a nation-wide broadcast at 3.45 a.m. on Tuesday (Australian time). The President is spending the week-end at Hyde Park, where he will speak on Monday. The other speakers will include Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labour, and American Labour leaders.