WANTS OF JAPAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 9

WANTS OF JAPAN.

"NOTHING BUT JUSTICE/' PARIS. April 2. Renter's correspondent at the Peace Conference telegraphs that the American Associated Press has interviewed Baron Makino, the head of the Japanese Delegation at the conference. "No Asiatic nation could be happy in any League of Nations," said Baron Makino, " in which sharp racial distinctions are maintained. " We want nothing but simple justice. We do not with to impose our labouring classes as immigrants upon any of our associate countres. We recognise that this question must be d.alt with by such countries individually. We want no special privileges. " What we feel is this—that we are entitled to frank and open admission by the A.lies, with whom we have fought and will fight for a fr"e and civilised world, and that the principle of equity and justice is a fundamental tenet of the League of Nations. This, of course, appl ee only to the conduct of Gjvernments, and cannot govern the likes or dislikes of industrialists, which aro their own. "We see difficulties in the way of a Crmanent successful operation of this lague of Nations unless the contracting parties enter it with mutual raped. " Marriages of convenience too often breed distrust and discord rather than contentment."