"We have no right and we do not ask you to go to war to stop the Japanese menace. The forces of constructive pacifism are, however, immeasurably greater than those of the forces of violence if you my realize it. Japan, like all bullies, a bluffer. Weak China has already pricked Japan's balloon of invinsibility. Japan does not dare, she cannot make war against a combination of peace-loving nations. By frank and sincere ce-operation with the nations that actively desire peace and by the determination to employ economic boycott against the aggressor nation, you could dictate peace. Your posse needs only to show a united front and the bully will throw up his hands. And by so doing you wilt save the world and yourselves from the anarchy that threatens to engulf modern civilization. and covenants to which those nations were partners, they conveniently looked aside because they were preoccupied with economic difficulties, And when their attention was called to the transgression which by joint action at that time could have been stopped with ease, they strove to salve their conscience by listening to the plea that the situation in the Far East is somehow different, that there may be one
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