Unless the Nine Power Treaty is enforced, "further world peace efforts will be impossible, and the world will be retrograded by powerful conquerors", Senator Key Pittman; Democrat of Nevada, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech here to-day.
"It is possible that Japan will be reasonable and just when the matter is presented by so many friendly governments," he said. ' "If Japan continues obdurate and arbitrary, all the signatory Powers would be morally and legally justified in refusing to have dealings with Japan.
"Such a determination would not involve war unless Japan saw fit to attack all such governments, which suggestion is an absurd proposition," rin Pittman declared—United snapshot
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