NATIONS’ PROBLEMS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 2

NATIONS’ PROBLEMS

CONFLICT AVITH JAPAN. CONSIDERED NOT INEVITABLE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. “I do not think a conflict with Japan is inevitable,” said Mr AValter Nash, M.P. for Hutt, who returned by the Aorangi after attending the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations and other conferences in Canada. He said that while at the moment the problem between Japan, China and the Western world seemed insoluble, he thought there was a way out. It must be solved by rational negotiation between the countries concerned. If the right procedure were followed and the military 7 spirit not allowed to predominate lie was of the opinion that Japan would once more link up with the League of Nations. Mr Nash said that in spite'of the progress made in the United States with the national recovery scheme he was satisfied that President Roosevelt had hardly started along the road of solving the economic problem. AVhile President Roosevelt had the courage to face his country’s problems the difficulties he would have to face in the next six months were greater than he had faced y T et and greater than those which any President before him had had to face. He was confident that President Roosevelt would face them.