The Committee, before rising, agreed to the proposal of the French delegate, M. Yvon Delbos, for the appointment of a sub-committee to consider every aspect of the Sino-Japanese conflict and to submit resolutions, Lord Cranborne dealt ut length) with the policy of the British Government which, he said, was based, in the Far East and elsewhere, on the necessity of maintaining peace, It was a policy calling essentially for the fullest international co-opera tion and also a policy which was im complete harmony with the principles of the Covenant and demand-Ing the establishment of friendly understanding between China and, Japan.
Third Party Responsibiiities The British Government, Lord Cranborne declared, recognized that the relations between China and Japan Were normally a matter for} the two countries to settle themselves, but in the unhappy event of the conflict which had arisen it was, quite apart from any question of
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