"London, Aug. 15.
China will soon send an appeal to the League of Nations, the "Sunday. Times" believes but the journal does not know whether she will ask for fan immediate meeting of the Council.
"The hope ig entertained by the Chinese not that this step will set in motion' the machinery of collective security, but that it will reveal to the world public opinion the facts of the Fenewal of Japanese aggression.
'Turning to the attitude of other nations, he paper declares, "The British neutrality policy Is the result of a decision taken at a Cabinet meeting last month. 'The view held here is that only in the event of Joint action with' the United States could Britain take a strong line in the hope of restraining Japan.
"The diversion of British forces from Europe to the Far East might, it was felt, mean the immediate de~ terloration of the European situation where such improvement as there has been during the last twelve months held to be due almost solely to the growing momentum of British -re=
The "Sunday Times" then emphasized the dimeulties of Japanese in the present conflict and believes that China could resist for a year against Japan—which would upset all the plans of Tokyo.
Finally, the paper says, it is not impossible that following the adjournment of Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt may profit by the Congress, vacations to postpone the application of the neutrality law and its provisions to Chinese armaments—Havas.
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