To, the Editor of the "sNoneHsCHINA. Datty News:
Sin—The and the happenings in the indicate thatthe Lytton, Repore not n success, after all" This, ment does not app Epnelusions ave unacceptable to both Bar Eastern
ofthe on Report he Lytton, Report is a western conception and does not look at the things as. a_peace-maker from the Far Bast looks at them. ust as the divided China stands up ike one man. when any foreign fection is: felt, so. there must some mutual interests between China and Japan, "which " are powerful fnough'to squeeze ¢hem together. The Lytton Report docs. not contain any such stuff, it approaches both quarrellers inky a woman dove by to look at ead giving them the manly advice to stop fighting and look at something else, If the Report had given the Russo-Japanese war a prominent place in its historial outlay, had pointed out that the peace at Portsmouth was not fair to China, that there was not only the white' man in the world, "but the yellow man too, equally strong and good, that thanks te Japan the white man's ently expert curers of the depression, so far, the Bolsheviks no longer look at th Yellow Sea or send their narcotic melodies from the peaks at Port Arthur, if it had given some silent hints that Japan and China together acting on a 60-50 basis might find something very interesting to do in this world, which is: now more oF less a mess in the hands of the white man, if it had pointed out strongly and clearly that a. very strong and sound Far East is need-ina® otherwise everything goes shove had beet eet down Oy the Yee the dogs. I points similar" the
port, then a diferent attitude might Wye been taken by the Far East and China and Japan would have been greatly helped to find out for themselves 'a fine road for future development om a 50-50 basis with: out losing face, Composed of four-fifths of to-d ization, you think the League ionid make an early gesture self-confidence in the shape of Practical allegiance to the Cove: nant. You are confident that no pledges and pacts have yet been. broken by anybody; you are confident that the words of such a worthy member as Japan should continue to be trusted. So long as a man professes himself to be a Christian, he is a good Christian. Unfortunately you are of the same mentality as these-early mission-China, for you still talk of "consolidation of All members the League in a solemn determination to make fast that lifedline which is in peril of being lost." am afraid the solemn determin: tion of Japan is to heart has within its own ranks the spectre of death.
The veal. point at issue is that the League is afraid of Japan which, like a. bomb, will explode in. the face of anybody. The League is a coward and nothing else. Because China placed her unconditional trust on itself, the League thinks the only thing needed is to conciliate Japan. But at long last, China is beginning to see the folly of relying blindly on a third party. She her self must fight for her own salvation. She will resist the foreign invader to the bitter end.
Whatever you may think of faith and international concord, to us the League is a hoax. It betrays the cause of the weak nations, for itis utterly powerless to check the determined ambition of the strong. nations. Let all weak nations runite together and demand that the League be fundamentally reformed oF else be dissolved forthwith, for such a nonentity disgraces not' only itself, but all of us.
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