The official report on the fatal fire in East Seward Rood last Saturday shows that the victim's death was indirectly due to the tragedy of unemployment. Thrown out of work by the depression two years ago a Chinese" salesman—baulked in his efforts to find other employment—endeavoured to set himself in a small way as manufacturer of celluloid cods. Securing premises in an alleyway some few months ago he actually artied on what were really spasmodic operations in property which had been marked for demolition owing to its dilapidated state. Economic string-fancy delayed the work of demolition, moreover the owners could not induce the light of later world events, it fg dificult to resist the view that, as, this Journal declared as far back as October 1931, sanctions over the Mfan~ Churlen issue were impracticable and would not be accepted by the mem-hers of the League at that tinie because they' were bound to Tead war." Great Britain's subsequent ex-Derienee in another continent has thowa. the "validity of that objection. The possibility of the League getting control of the Manchuria problem. by. peaceful per-'Ruasion "was probably. present in Gcloder 1951 when hesitations were apparent on both sides of the Atlantic.
the time Mr. Stimson made his move in February 1932 it had vanish-
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