INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19311, 24 October 1924, Page 4

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

NEW ZEALAND AND JAPAN. REV. KAN AM ORES VIEWS. Die Rev.. Paul Kanamori was the guest of the Dunedin Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon yesterday in the Somerset Lounge, when Rotarian S. Solomon (president) occupied the chair. Rotarian Solomon said that the gueste included Professor Hewitson, delegates from the Shipping Conference, and several members of the Christchurch and Invercargill Rotary Clubs. Rotarian Peter Barr, in extending a welcome to the Rev. Kanamori, said that he was a noted evangelist, patriot, and economist, and that he would' speak on “International Relations.” The Rev. Kanamori said that h© intended speaking of the relations between Japan and the United States, and in a minor degree with Australia and New Zealand. Almost every Japanese, he said, was enraged against American exclusion, but not against Australia and New Zealand. This dominion also excluded Japanese, but in Japan no ill-will was borne against New Zealand. Every country had the right to say who should and who should not come into it, just as the master of a house had the right to choose his guests. Americans had gone to Japan about 70 years ago (in 1854) and entreated the Japanese to become friends. They were sent away, but knocked again, and subsequently had been Japan’s very good friends for a long time. Now America turned to Japan and said “Pleas© go out” to those of that race in the country. It was “insolence upon the national honour of Japan,” and the Japanese regarded honour more highly than life. The people had not been invited here at all, so there was no bitter feeling; but they were looking for help from New Zealand and Australia. There were 60,000,000 in Japan to the dominion’s 1,000,000, and there was no laud, no sheep, no wool; they wanted much our beef, but could not get this meat for less than 2s to 3s a lb. Our mutton, butter and cheese were also needed for a great market right in Japan, fast becoming a manufacturing country. If Japan could get meat for about Is or Is 6d a pound New Zealand and .Australia would get the market. Japan looked always to the dominion and to the Commonwealth as parts of the British Empire, and the nation’s most trusted friend. Japan would never part from Britain, and tlie natives honoured Britishers. He hoped that the relations with America would be changed through the united efforts of tlic Christian churches on both sides. He trusted that they would have the peace of God. "

Rotarian Magnus Johnston replied to Rev. Kanamori on. behalf of the Rotary Club, stating that the club stood for all that was highest and noblest in international relations and those of a less wide sphere. The members supported the speaker in his ideal for peaceful co-opera-tion. He thanked the visitor for his very tine address.