WORLD RESOURCES
EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION. JAPAN’S INTERESTS. OBSERVER’S COMMENTS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) Received February 11, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 10. The Times Tokio correspondent says the Foreign Office spokesman, referring appreciatively to tlie debate in the House of Commons and other signs, said that Western statesmen had begun to seriously disesus a “more equitable” distribution of the world’s rer sources. He pointed out that the movement might take a century to achieve practical results which, however, were more likely to preserve peace than a balance ot power or the League of Nations. The spokesman divided the nations into categories. Firstly, those which had enough and were content; secondly, those possessing resources, but lacking the vitality to develop them; thirdly, those possessing vitality, but lacking resources, in which lie included Japan. But he did not indicate whether the vital nations should develop resources for the backward ones. He added that the nations should work out a scheme. He admitted that Japan had no difficulty in obtaining raw materials, but access to certain markets was obstructed. The newspapers are supporting a redistribution of territories and show envy of Europe’s tropical empires.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 62, 11 February 1936, Page 7
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193WORLD RESOURCES Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 62, 11 February 1936, Page 7
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