WAR NOT INEVITABLE
SIR J. LATHAM’S HOPEFUL VIEW CHANCE OF PRUDENT COUNSELS PREVAILING. FACTORS MAKING FOR RESTRAINT SYDNEY, November 16. “Many people think war in the Pacific is inevitable, and though I recognise the danger of it I find myself unable to share these gloomy apprehensions,” said the Australian Minister to Tokio, Sir John Latham, on his arrival at Sydney after nearly a year in the East. Sir John said the Japanese Government had tried to place the whole of Japan on a war basis, but there were many reasons why she should not engage on new wartime adventures at the present time. These reasons were appreciated by many prudent persons who had great influence in Japan. The increasing successes of Britain and her
Allies have caused Japan to ask if she has not made a mistake in her pact with Germany and Italy. “Expressions of opinion in Japan, however, are strictly controlled,” Sir John said. “It is the patriotic duty of Japanese citizens to accept Government policy, and criticism of foreign policy is limited. I believe thehe is a real chance of prudent counsels prevailing in Japan which'will keep her out of a Pacific war.” Sii' John said he had returned to Australia to discuss his impressions and eastern affairs generally.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 5
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