JAPAN’S PLEDGE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20266, 28 March 1934, Page 15

JAPAN’S PLEDGE.

Ready to Co-operate. (Special to tlie “Star.’) SAN FRANCISCO, February 23. / President Roosevelt has had the assurance of Hirosi Saito, new Japanese Ambassador to Washngton, that there appears to be no question in the relations between the United States and Japan which cannot be composed amicably and in a spirit of mutual friendship. Presenting his credentials in Washington to President Roosevelt, Ambassador Saito said Japan’s predominant aim was . for peace in the Pacific and eastern Asia. “Eastern Asia is at present passing through a very important period,” Ambassador Saito said. “Japan some time ago was constrained to take decisive steps for consolidation of stability and good order in that region. “Peace in eastern Asia has been and ever will be the genuine aim and abiding aspiration of the Japanese nation, ami whatever action Japan may take will always be taken in its interests. “Then, in the field of economic activities Japan and the United States are able, or rather destined, to go hand in hand in many respects. The industries of the two countries are largely complementary; their economic interests are. not conflicting. Our vast mutual trade, the largest between any two countries on the Pacific, is highly valuable to both our nations. “There should be ways and means by which we could profitably unite our efforts in the common struggle against the economic depression. I am sure that whatever question, either political or economic, may arise between our two, countries, can and will be amicably composed in a spirit of friendship and mutual confidence.”