To, the Editor of the "Nonri-CHINA DAILY News."
Sin—Tho task of the League in dealing with the Sino-Japanese im= broglio is not rendered easier bj some of the comments which have appeared in recent issues of your Paper, quoted from a section of the British daily Press.
The League is not, however, the sole authority responsible for action in connection with that dispute and there is a consideration of. a much wider and more important nature than of its rights and wrongs. The Mole structure of international lations rests on the basis of treaty and on no other basis. The condition of stability in. those Yelations is the sanctity of treaty obligation and ite observance by the signatories of the treaty.
he chief seriousness of the Sino-Japanese dispute lies notin. its fect on the territorial areas China and Fapen, now in the maine B ii'the' breach ofthe conditions of ace, of the Open Door." Ie lies Treaty to. which' those Powers, in common with others. are parties. Te appears to be an obligation on of a treaty, not only, to it that, they' thomeetves observe its conditions, But. also that follow signatories do 0, Yet, except. on the, part of the Uhited States, whose action has throughout been consistent, the "breaches treaty in the present ease have apparently escaped. the attention on the part of other This remarkable fact Indicates. that Great Britain, common with the majority of. the ther signatories of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922, has failed. realize the obligation under which she reets, to see that the provisions of that Treaty are observed, This uty i additional to her duty
to deliberate on the steps necess aimcnline of the League at Nations 40 Solve the Sino-Jepanese difieulty, nor can she escape her own part ular obligation om the ground that! the League is dealing with the
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