JAPAN’S FRIENDSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 10

JAPAN’S FRIENDSHIP

GWfiRATULATKWS M CORONATIBH THRfNES BULWARKS ACAIR6T BMMERWB Influences Admirable sentiments of, friendship towards Britain are expressed in a letter received by a Dunedin resident from a prominent business man in Japan. “ May I take advantage of this great occasion in English history to offer you my heartiest congratulations on the Coronation of their Majesties King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth,” ho wrote on the occasion of the Coronation. . “ We in Japan appreciate the specially auspicious significance which their Majesties’ Coronation has to the British people to-day throughout the Empire, and, indeed, throughout the world. Wo are further convinced that monarch* bearing, such illustrious names in English history will be worthy of >the highest traditions of the British Throne, whose age-old stability we in Japan so earnestly look to in collaboration with, our own Imperial family, as a bulwark in East and West against the dangerous influences which in their pernicious aims to-day have no respect for those very traditions which are the foundation of the English and Japanese solidarity in the troublous world to-day, and which give us those common ideals that are in themselves a guarantee of our lasting friendship.”