NOT INEVITABLE

Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 7

NOT INEVITABLE

CONFLICT WITH JAPAN MR NASH’S VIEWS AMERICA’S PROBLEMS (Per United Press Association) Auckland, October 29. “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. 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 economic problem. While Mi- Roosevelt, had the courage to face his country’s problems the difficulties he would have to face in the next six months were greater than those he had faced yet and greater than those which any president before him had had to face. He was confident Mr Roosevelt would face them.