PACIFIC PACT IDEA
A NOTE OF WARNING. IDEALS VERY CONFLICTING. WOULD NOT GIVE SECURITY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received dune 4, 9.uU ’ a.m. LONDON, June 3. A note of warning is being sounded in connection with Mr J. A. Lyons’s Pacific Pact proposal. The ieeling in well informed quarters here is that a long path towards reconciling conflicting ideas and ideals must be traversed beiore anytinug tangible appears on tne horizon. The Morning Post lias expressed a widely held view in London wiien it says: “A universal guarantee of lionaggression aiieauy exists in the Kellogg ± 7 act. A new pact would not give tne signatories any greater security unless a real desire for peace existed among them. If such a desire existed a pact would. scarcely be necessary.” The Morning Post emphasised the particularly complex relations in the Pacific, which is dominated by Japan, and says: “It seems extremely unlikely that a new conference would solve the problem, which thus far has evaded all tlie efforts of diplomacy. There is certainly a better atmosphere in the Far East, which nothing would be more calculated to spoil than a gathering of nations all mutually suspicious, and each with its own interests to canvass.’ Tlie Manchester Guardian, in a leader on the Pacific Pact, says: “It is desirable, but the question rather is whether it is practicable. The most obvious difficulty is Manchukuo. There is not »the slightest chance of Japan’s signing a regional pact which does not recognise Manchukuo. liquallj* China is unlikely to sign a pact recognising Manchukuo.
“Several outstanding disputes remain between Japan and Russia, while the Anglo-Jap-American naval question will not become easier.
“Australia, which has most to gain and much to fear, might be asked for some concession on migration. It is a dismal catalogue. Tlie only lioperul point is that a strong body of opinion in all the countries concerned welcomes the pact.” •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 7
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