Negotiations With Japan For Settlement

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7300, 30 October 1933, Page 7

Negotiations With Japan For Settlement

"CONFLICT NOT INEVITABLE,” SAYS MR. WALTER NASH. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. “I do not think a conflict with Japan is inevitable,” said Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., who returned by the Aorangi after attending the 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 and it must be solved by rational negotiation between the countries concerned. If the right procedure were followed, and the military spirit not allowed to predominate, he 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 Mr. Roosevelt had hardly started along the road of solving the oconomic problem. While Mr. Roosevelt had tho courage to face his country's problems, the difficulties he would have to face in the next six months wero greater than he had faced yet and greater than those which any President before him had had to face. Ho was confident that Mr Roosevelt would face them.