Suggested Plan May Injure Tokyo Export Trade Tokyo, May 25.
Of Japan's honour and prestige are lever impaired, she will have no alternative but' to go to war, the [Foreign Minister, Mr. Naotake' Sato, yesterday told the Tokyo Free Trade Association.
The first aim of diplomacy, he! Jdcctared, is to avoid war, "which beneliis "nobody and harms all the "However, If at any time Japan is confronted with an emergency situation, which impairs her honour Jand authority, we must resolutely 0 to war. No one can say, that in [such circumstances T should oppose armed action. Until, and unless such fan emergency comes. I shall tread the beaten paths of diplomacy," Mr. Sato emphasized.
The guiding principle of his for~ cion policy, Mr. Sato asserted, would be to avoid war. He endorsed the Femark of former Premier, Mr. Koki Mirota, "who preceded him as For-feign Minister, that "no war shall out during my tenure of to peace and the avoidance of war," he pointed out, "must be sought in the free access to raw materials and overseas mar-ets"
'This would also solve the problem arising from the large annual me ferease' in the nation's population.
"The best way to solve this press Jing issue, it is generally realized, through " expanding production, an energetic acquisition and exploltation of natural resources, and. the opening of foreign markets. This [programme forms a solid foundation for peace and insures against Mr. Sato revealed that Japan's delegate to the second meeting of the League's Raw Materials In~ vestigation Committee, which will lopenin Geneva next "month, will irress for a recognition of this programme by foreign powers.
He concluded with a plea to other powers to base their trade policies Jon "fair play" to eliminate " undue friction but' admonished Japanese manufacturers against. competing with foreign merchandise at the sacrifice of the welfare of the workers, a practice which he described "inimical to the interests of the
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