In proposing the resolution, Dr. Wellington Koo said it stated facts known throughout the world and confirmed by the activities 2f tne Japanese army on land, the Japan~ ese Navy along the coast and on the high seas, and Japanese aircraft the alr, which "constituted ageres-sion against China, " member of the ague."
The Chinese delegation believed that these facts were incontestable, fand asked the Committee to take note of them. They believed that the conclusion of the resolution was fully justlied by the facts they had slated, and that they could not escape from them. They asked the Committee to confirm it by a suitable pronouncement, "I realize," Dr. Koo declared, "that there are some people who would hesitate to make such a pronounce ment not because of the facts but Because of possible consequences.
"We are not asking for the dis~ charge of all obligations of member states of the Covenant for the defence of China's. territorial integrity and political independence. We realize that the unsatisfactory experience past and conditions in other parts of the world call for prudence jand moderation by the League. inciples Must Be Upheld "But - this consideration applies only to measures to be taken to cheek the forces of aggression, On the question of reaffirming the principles of the Covenant, there should be no compromise.
"The world. will understand, in the present circumstances, if' the League does not endeavour to put Its whole machinery into operation for the purpose of checking aggression, ut it will not understand it does mot. speak out on the ques-ton of right or wrong. It will only. be undermining the position of the League further as a great moral force it it does not make this pronouncement."
Tu conclusion, Dr. Koo declared that there was' nothing "to prevent the League from standing up and making known to the world its opinion, based on the fundamental principle of its own existence. That is what is expected not only by China but by. the whole world.—Revier.
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