NAVAL TREATY
PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER. [bkitish official wireless.] RUGBY, December 30. The Japanese Ambassador in London. M. Malsudaira, called at the Foreign Office, to acquaint the British Government officially of Japan’s intention to terminate the naval treaty ol Washington, from December 31, 1936. Commenting on the denunciation “The Times” says: “The event is none the less grave because it was universally foreseen. Japanese diplomacy has made the act of abrogation appeal a mere formality, bitt it cannot conceal the demolition of the model edifice ot an international agreement set up 13 years ago. Yet even at the moment of denunciation. Japan emphatically proclaims her desire to rebuild a new treaty on the debris oi the old, and the London negotiations of the last two months have been conducted with such remarkable frankness, tact and goodwill by all three parties, that the hope, which Is more than shared by Great Britain and the United States, seems by no means impossible of fulfilment, v
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 January 1935, Page 7
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