ANGLO-JAPANESE RELATIONS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 8

ANGLO-JAPANESE RELATIONS

Proposed Friendship ARTICLE BY PRINCE KONOYE Conference Suggested ißy Telegraph— Press Assn —Copyright.) (Received August 25, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 24.

The Japanese Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, in an article in the “Statist’s” Japanese supplement, said: “I am sure that, if a handful of statesmen come forward in both Japan and England with uncircmnscribed powers, it will not be cliilicult to rectify past miscalculations and arrange for the common interests of the two nations to be crystallized into some new concrete and friendly co-operation. “A new and better order would be ushered in. with tlie elimination of differences which have arisen in connexion with tlie deplorable China emergency. ‘•Japan and England should have cooperated in the lace of (lie pressing menace of international Bolshevism, but. unfortunately Japan rejected tlie British offer of co-operation made on the eve of the Nanking incident, while various Japanese proposals for the continuation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in spirit fell on deaf ears in Britain.” .Single-Party System. LONDON. August 23. Iris reported from Tokio that Prince Konoye has appointed a prepatttiory commission to establish a new singleparty political system. The members of the commission are drawn from all fields of political and industrial life. It is considered, however. I hat the selections indicate a new set-up with a totalitarian tinge. They include Admiral Suetstigu, Colonel Hashimoto, Mr. Seigo Nakano (aii advocate of an alliance witli the Rome-Berlin Axis). Mr. Toshio Sliirtttori (former Ambassador to Italy); Mr. Furuno <of the Domed News Agency) : Mr. Takaishi (of tlie “Nielli Nichi .Shimbun’’), and Rightist and Leftist political leaders. The last of the East Surreys, (100 men. departed from Shanghai after a march through the city led by the United States Marino Band.