To, the Eiitor of the "NoRrH-CHINA DAILY News.'
Sm—It is clear that British Polley, in regard to the Far Bast halting between two opinions, On the one hand itis Held that the therefore of all its mentters is con ral function of the League and filiation not judgment, that Britain's part is that of a neutral friendly' to both pa Must not become involved in a foreign quarrel which in not our concern, that sanctions cannot. be applied in the present slate of the World, and that we should carefully refrain from offending Japan who is an old friend and the guardian of Taw and order in the Mar Bast, On the other hand there are those who are convinced that. while the League's primary function is goneiliation, there are. international laws and treaties, and that I when these are broken itis Powsible beyond a certain po Drotend that it is not so and some sort of judgment must be pronoun: oe el, a atop to which the Lytton commission itself was forced. "They believe that since 191 there can be no neutrality for those who sigmad the Covenant of the League or the Kellogy Pact, However much Wo may dislike ity every quarrel among members of the League ur concern: in other words, what Japan is doing is og much am at= tack upon us as upon China. They lieve that the last thing (0 be desired is war but that short of war there are ways in which real influence could be brought to bear fon the situation. And they believe that though within the borders of her own community there may be Jaw and order in Japan, in her international action in Manchuria, Jehol, Shanhaikuan, Shanghai' and at Geneva she has been subverting Inw and order, rendering world curity and disarmament more remote and attacking the now constitutional law of nations "for Which so many in Britain and other nations fought and died and which has been constructed these last ten years by so much labour and selfsuetifice.
With this latter view of what ish policy should Ue, some of Us unhesitatingly associate ourself ves. We deplore the crude and even cynical tone of much that. parently being written" in" the British press and prefer to contemplate what we believe to be the policy of men. like Sir Austen Chamberfain, "Lord Lytton, Lord ustiee Perey, Lord Robert Cecil, Professat Gilbert Murray, Archbishop Temple, Mr: H. G. Wells and others. 'There are no doubt dangers involved in the refusal to recognise Manchukuo, in a strict embargo of the sale' of' arms to either country, in the withdrawal of certain eco: nomic accommodations. from. those who consistently. set themselves in to the common good.
way be dangers. But they seem far outweighed by the danger of allowing treaties to be regarded as mere scraps of paper and; of standing helplessly. on one side one nation makes war upon another and the Far East drifts perhaps towards an international conflict that is the very thing -we swish to avoid.
Rexs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.