JAPAN WANTS PEACE
But Will Take “Steps” If Necessary HER NEED OF MARKETS TOKIO, Muy 5. The Prime Minister, Mr. K. Hirota, in the Diet, stressed Japan’s desire for peace in East Asia and the Pacific and furtherance of American-Japanese amity. lie said that neither Japan nor Manchukuo harboured aggressive dc- , signs. The Japanese Government was greatly concerned at the ‘inroads of Communist influence into East Asia and was watching developments in view of the likelihood of the lied armies marching northward. He alluded to the need of raw ma- , terials and extended markets for finished products. He declared that if difficulties were removed by friendly means Japan might be compelled to adopt the necessary measures. Air Hirota said that tho Soviet’s maintenance of excessive armaments at remote outposts in tho Far East constituted a real menace to which Japan could not remain indifferent.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 121, 6 May 1936, Page 7
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