WAR NOT WANTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 17, 17 December 1937, Page 7

WAR NOT WANTED.

COMMENT FROM NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. loPress editorial comment on the situation continues to be interesting. The New York World-Telegram, in a leading article, states: “It must not happen again. The people of the United States do not want war with Japan, nor, we believe, do the people of Japan want war with the United States. We hope that Tokio will find a way to impress her mad militarists with the wisdom of looking before they shoot, for if this is not done it is just a question of time until a new incident occurs. Emotions may then be aroused to such a pitch that we will suddenly find ourselves, Japanese and Americans alike, up to our necks in trouble which none of us wants.” The Japanese Consul-General in New York (Mr Wakasugi) issued the following statement: “In these critical moments be calm, wise, arid far-seeing regarding the present conflict in China, because the situation in the Far East is so complicated and the causes so bound up with history that no good purpose would be served by mere argument excited by emotion or hasty judgment based on one-sided provocation.” Mr Walter Lippmann, the noted publicist, presents a strong argument against the withdrawal from China of American forces and nations. “Asia is too big and there are too marly American connections to make such a policy' practicable,” he says., “This war in the Orient is not a local riot. It is raging over an area inhabited by more than 100,000,000 people with whom Americans have thousands of ties extending through many generations.”