ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 July 1921, Page 5

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY

PROPOSED PARLIAMENTARY

STATEMENT.

OPPOSITION FROM CANADA.

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LONDON, July 8,

Mr Lloyd George explains that the proposed Parliamentary statement in. reference to the Anglo-Japanese alliance depends upon the receipt of replies from the United States, Japan and China. The Daily/Chronicle states that the Empire Conference favours Anglo-Jap-anese friendship ,being harmonised with free developments in China, in dose co-operation with the United States. The Nation says that not for the first time in recent years the inert and poorly led democracy of this country has reason to be grateful to the Dominions or some of them. They have imposed a check on the Government's intention to renew the Japanese alliance, and ibefore the stubborn resistance °* Canada and the powerful influence o* | South Africa the Prime Minister w a s J driven to accept delay as a middle! course. Canada made it clear that en© would not be a party to the treaty M renewed, and the risk of driving-43an-ada into independence should deter us from renewing the treaty.