BIN, Lofgren (Sweden) asked the Assembly to support. the Council's appeal sent to Japan on February 'He declared that the embarkaion' of troops. and their. employment on another's territory Was finite violation of the Covenant. Special circumstances could not invoked by one party as a device for avoiding the operation. of the machinery of the Covenant, which yas built up so patiently amd was Bow in danger of collapse. unless The Assembly succeeded establishing peace based on justice.
'A decision, not a platonic. resolu: Aion, and the avoidance "of inter pretation of texts that were Mot fine ere must, be the key-note of the resent vital discussions, was the Spinion expressed by M. Erich of Finland. He pleaded the historic "friendship of Finland for China and Japan as proof of his sincerity" demanding clear-cut measures signed to" vindicate the League in {tg intention to enteres peace with justice, M, Blokland (Holland) dwelt on the obstinate nature of the dispute, Metying for abe months. all efforts to settle it, Similarly to Mf. Erich, "the Nethetiands spokesman said country rejoiced in the beat rela-Mons With both China" and Japan and declined to apportion the blame anelther side, Nevertheless, he said, the thunder guns in China was a shameful accompaniment to the League's dis-Guasions of the problem which must be approached with keen determination to atop the blood-shed and 2 "realisation of - the" disastrous fect any failure would have upon The whole plan of organised international peace, 'The big guns of the Cole of the Leagtie to-day. are quiet, replaced by the barking of the "light "artillery" of the smaller nations represented atthe Leugue Assembly whose' intervention' yesterday was Very successful in the persons Benen and M, Motto, However, M, Hymans, the chair-wan, shoppily short-circuited -iniplent lengthy debater,—a course! of action which is praised as an earnest of the expeditious treatment Gf. the Work of the Assembly.
For the frat time for weeks, the] League proceedings, are unembarrassed by Feports of hostilities, Today's session opened at. 10.45 when Sir Erie Drummond announced the receipt of a telegram from the United States Minister acknowledg. Ing. the receipt of the Assembly's resolution yesterday and promising, of Col, Henry L. Stimson, mein cllabration in Shana fr, Sato, spoke again. some of Dr. Yew's assertions made yesterday regarding] the continuance of Japanese host ties and refuted these statements a exaggerations and inaccuracies Reuter,
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