16 APRIL 1937, Page 20

JAPAN'S SOUTHWARD THRUST [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] JAPAN'S

SOUTHWARD THRUST [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

Snt,—I have read with much interest Mr. Chamberlin's article in the last issue of The Spectator on " Japan's southward thrust." I would ask him, and the writers of many other such articles, but one question—How is Japan to solve her population- problem by peaceful means if she is not allowed to expand economically southward and westward and every other way she can ? Till that question is answered satisfactorily I wonder what right we have to speak critically of her ceaseless effort to obtain fresh markets.—Yours faithfully, W. H. MURRAY WALTON.

The Vicarage, Broxbourne, Herts.