The Stalemate fo, the Editor of the u-CHINA Datuy News." wcothe, materi that Japan policy. d the icy in Manchuria has aroused the It" the' plans "of the]
jovernment Are based on expectation they are disappointment."
The above, from your Editorial of the 17th on Mr. Wang Ching- be wei's statement to the Press, shows as correct an estimate as is to be expected from a journal of long: standing in the East.
There has been, is and by far more pronounced unanimity or determination in. the Aggression than in the Chi sistance, in spite of the unmistakable righteousness of, and the urgent necessity for, the latter course. finance and energy, Japan is in a much better position to pursue her programme of conquest than China 4s to prevent, obstruct or retard, the fulfilment of that programme. None of the Western Powers, inside as well as outside the League, will ever think of the use of "armed forces"
Provided in Article XVI, unless 10 dangers to their respective interests, are sufficiently direct and immediate, Considering the amount that has been made of the sanctity and irrevocability of treaty stipulations, no matter if extracted by extortion, in violation of International Law and Conventions and detrimental to a nation's right of existence, one may with moderation expect partial observance, a compromise, of the Covenant, the infareement of the" econo sanctions, if not as "immediately" and automatically as stipulated, at Toast after the unanimous. ver-diet of the League, after the failure of every one of its "'save-face" ef-
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