LABOUR AND JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4033, 16 September 1933, Page 4

LABOUR AND JAPAN

Then that patriotic watchdog of Imperial interests, the Welfare League, draws our attention to the gibe of the Daily Herald, London’s Labour organ about Australia not having the coinage to tell Japan to mind her own business and leave Australia to police the north in her own way. This sneer at the ,‘courage” of Australia does not come well from a paper representing a party which has consistently advocated disarmament by the Empire aa an example to other nations. Indeed, the Socialist Party went so far in this direction when it was in power that the Empire’s naval, military and air forces have been reduced to a dangerous extent. If the Commonwealth Government exhibited “the courage” suggested by the Herald and refused to punish the native murderers the probable result would be a landing of a Japanese armed party on Australian soil. Wlrat could Australia do? She could pass resolutions of protest or she could appeal to the League of Nations —both of which would be useless.