SOVIET DEFENCE CLAIM
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The Pfieifie Relations conference today witf ressed a sharp answer by the Russian delegation to the .Japanese intimat lon that Japan maintained different -peace policies towards America and Britain, compared with those towards lier immediate neighbours, China nnd C.S.S.R.
Tib e Soviet’s statement bluntly dorian d that force couid not be resorted to ‘against the U.S.S.R. by anyone wits’h nnv measure of success, ntid add rd that the Japanese position could In* interpreted ns justification in ad-v-jt neo of war as an instrument of ns tional police. Tire statement said 11 ml Japanese fears of Communism ;«c ould only meatr that she did not conf rider tlie conditions in her own country vetv .stable.
Dr. Kenzo Takayniutgi said that Ihe Russians misunderstood the Japanese position. It. was-not o. threat of war against the (J.S.S.'Tf., but niCrCly an admission of the unsettled conditions between two countries, requiring different diplomatic procedure from that employed with Britain arid America.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 2
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