JAPAN NOT COVETOUS.
Consul-General Speaks on Pacific Policy. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 16. Mr Kuramatsu Murai, Consul-Gen-eral for Japan in Australia and New Zealand, interviewed on his arrival by the Maunganui from Sydney, said that the idea of a political invasion or conquest of the Pacific had not entered the heads of the country’s leaders. He said there were cranks here and there who suggested such a thing, but maybe it was the result of a day-dream. Japan did not turn covetous eyes on Australia and New Zealand. So far as the Pacific was concerned, she was quite prepared to remain pacificatory. Japan, he said, was too much occupied with Manchuria without looking to the south. With reference to Russia, he said it was Russia’s policy to propagate Communism all over the world to bring about revolution and it was a potential danger. It was not Japan’s intention to conquer Russia or China.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20281, 16 April 1934, Page 7
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