Returned Men To Have Say In Treaty For Japan
SYDNEY, This Day (Rec Noon).— The Australian Government would invite the Returned Servicemen’s , League to nominate a representative 'to take part in discussions on framing the peace treaty with Japan, said ! the Minister for External Affairs, Dr ;H. V. Evatt. He was addressing the ' annual Federal congress of the R.S.L. j Dr Evatt said: “The war will go by and people will forget the war, but ! we would be wrong to forget the, atrocities of war caused by Japan.” He added that the Japanese peace treaty was most important for Australia and delays in its preparation ■had not made the Japanese problem • less difficult. The Australian Govern- ■ ment wanted Japan to take its place economically in the Pacific but not at i the expense of any other country and j no preferences should be given Japan ' over any other country.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1949, Page 5
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