Crisis in Pacific Full of Menace

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 272, 20 November 1934, Page 7

Crisis in Pacific Full of Menace

BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES MUST STAND TOGETHER. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, November IS. The Marquess of Lothian in an article in the Observer, discussing the crisis in the Pacific says: “The situation is full of menace to everybody, including Japan. She is being led by short-sighted military leaders to abandon the far sighted policy which led to the Washington treaties and to plunge into the same power the diplomacy which brought Germany to a catastrophe in 1914 and which must similarly min Japan. It is absolutely certain that the United States and the whole British Commonwealth must ultimately be driven together in resistance to Japanese militarism. The root of the immediate difficulty lies in the inability of Britain and United States to take that united resolute action which will strengthen moderates in Japan. If Britain and United States stand together now, Japan’s militarism will soon decide that it is better to come to terms than to incur the opposition of both.”