POINTED TALK
AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN
REPLY TO MR. KAWAI
SOME VITAL FACTORS
(Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 29. Australian-Japanese relations were again in the spotlight today with the central figures the Japanese Minister in Australia, Mr. Kawai, and the Federal Minister of External Affairs, Sir Frederick Stewart.
The &ball. was set rolling by Mr. Kawai who, in the course of a long statement couched in more pointed terms than those which marked his arrival, reassured Australians that there was no intention by the Japanese Government of "moving down" on Australia by military force. On the contrary, Japan wished only to cultivate trade arra friendship.
Mr. Kawai then asserted^ that Japan will never be induced to* resort to force except as a final measure when there is sufficient provocation. He
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1941, Page 9
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129POINTED TALK Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1941, Page 9
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