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Show ThinS JAPAN WOULD FAVOR HEUTRAIZAT10H OF THE PHILIPPINES ri TreatysGua(ranteelng Indep'-n.denee' of jv IslandsfciJggested by" W. Morgan Shutter Washington an, 8. W. Morgan Shusfer, Jtor fyght' years an American offlojitlj'lnjjthy Phjlfpplncs before be coming Jin "International flguro inthe financial- affairs ol- Porsiapiold , tho Senato Philippines committee today ho beljeyed Japan jvoilld bbjglad to "enter into a treaty' with .ho United Stales to neutralize tho Islands, ShiiBter could not concolvo of any foreign power attompting tho, .conquest .con-quest of tho Philippines at&r the withdrawal of tho Unlted.'States. Th'ero 'was ,an unwritten Moiroo "doc trlno in tho far east maintained' by Japan, ho,, said, which would make lliat1-nation opposo'tho entry of any othor power Into tho Philippine lixoup. ' , japan, ho said, had vast territory '6? her own undeveloped and Japanese Japa-nese colonization of tho Philippines was highly Improbable now or ln'the future' bocauso ,of climatic and economic econ-omic conditions. Ho believed a 'neutralization 'neu-tralization treaty with Japan would be eufflclcnt, but that all nations taay be aBkod to Join in it with advantage. advan-tage. Tho events of tho Inst? six months In Europo, ho said, mado him bollevo such a treaty would bo ro-apectod. ro-apectod. -t t x i Shuster favored tho administration bill for a grpator measurQ4 of self government and irged that It incliido somo'deflnltojPromlBQOl complete. ln dependence. v nj $ t-d .. 1 |
