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Show ANGLO -JAPANESE TREATY WAS NOT AIMED AT U.S. Suspicions in .America And Australia Groundless. Says Writer Who Asks Church-hill Church-hill to Explain. (By Univcrs&l 8rvic.) LONDON. Jan. SI. rerturbd by th suspicions In th United 8 !&!, Canada and Australia regarding ths Ang-lo-Japantas treaty, J. L Garvin, in today's Obaerver, bids Winston Churchill ths new minister of Imperial Imperi-al affairs to Isaus sn official statement state-ment that the apprehensions art baseless. base-less. "Ths treaty was a safeguard ssalnat Asiatic dangers which do not now exist," ex-ist," says Garvin. "The treaty never had a point In H which was leveled j st ths United States. Every sane human hu-man being ought to know that the faintest suggestion of Hriish action with Japan against America would Mnge Australia, New Zealand and Canada Can-ada with th United Htates evn agalnat the mother country and would, disrupt the empire. "Japan, for her swarming population, popula-tion, la entitled to adequate scop on' th Asiatic shores nearest her own. j On that sufficient basis London and Wahlngton ought to b friendly to the Mikado's people j "Nothing under the sun 1 mor absolutely certain than that If Japan I wer to attack any English speklng: people she would have to mwt the combined forces of ths whols English speaking rtc. "It would be to Japan's best Inter sst to check her huge ship building pros rani and seek sn agreement for limiting armaments Instead. "Because m shsolutety refns to regard the United Htates In the light of sn enemy working for mer sg-gression sg-gression without a shadow of cause, w limit our alms to a naval equality equal-ity with America. Iet tt b a joint affair with security for both snd ag-gressiv ag-gressiv domination for neither. More, w do not seek and less ws can not do with' Garvin urges Churchill ss "half American" to work for sn understanding under-standing with America with ths "steadv undaunted heart of a great Englishman." |