Japan’s Problems

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 56, 18 February 1935, Page 8

Japan’s Problems

(To the Editor). Sir, —According to the Press, Mr W. E. Barnard, Labour M.P. for Napier, ia returning to New Zealand after baling spent a holiday in Japan. And it appears he has developed rather keen interest in the problems confronting that country', and according to reports suggests that Japan is entitled to mom sympathetic attention to her problem* from the British Empire, particularly New Zealand and Australia. Such a statement is unworthy at the present time of the greatest Imperialist within the Empire. But I cannot understand any representative of the working class developing such an interest in the development of the Imperial tyrants of Japan, who refused to allow a delegation from the workers of Australia to land there while on their way to another part of the world to take part in a workers’ congress. If this suggest* the class of economic treatment he intends to mete out when in power, by opening our doors to the greatest sweater, country in the world, th* workers should take steps that will enable them to work out their own economic problems. 1 might point out that this great jingoistic, war monger, ing country sent out one of their battle cruisers or destroyers a few months back on a visit along the Australian coast, when they visited an island off the coast. When they discovered the settlers absent, it is reported that they set to work, broke up the homes and wrecked the landing place of the islanuers What a peace-loving race this great stalwart of tho Labour Party o£ New Zealannd proposes to introduce to us. —Yours, etc., E. H. DALLEYHastings, Feb. 18.