A "Goodwill" Gesture!

A LONDON Sunday newspaper was re sponsible in March for the report that Japan had offered to return the Caroline and Marshall Islands to Ger many, “as a goodwill gesture and as an example to other countries”.

Having read thus far, one was inclined to stop and wonder whether Great Brit ain would be so affected by this example as possibly to change the fate of New Guinea and Western Samoa.

However, there was another paragraph.

“The offer of Japan is accompanied by the condition that Germany should re turn the islands as soon as her other former colonies have been recovered”.

One might describe it as a gesture typically Oriental!