The report of the League of Naceeding in the Gran Chaco between Paraguay and Bolivia does not seem to carry matters much farther when suggests that hostilities would cease immediately if other nations would cease supplying arms to the belligerents. If the Great War prov-they could take up the jed anything at all it was that nations, denied financial aid, and even {raw materials, could carry on their Geht long after it was believed it would be impossible to do so. This not advanced asa reason why other countries should be allowed to continue the supply to the warring parties, but rather to point out that the remedy might be neither so effective nor so immediate as the Commission would apparently have the world! believe. Both countries could continue to fight if they wished, even if they were unable to obtain the modern armaments they desired and even if they were reduced to th most elementary of weapons. The war might even then be just as pitiless and horrible, for when man-ind comes down 0 a hand-toshand struggle greater damage is inflict than was ay done in the Great" War. Nevertheless whether the end foreseen by the Commission were attained by the method suggested or no, it is undoubtedly. desirable that other countries should Fefrain from assisting the particupants in this present insane struggle which is inflicting the gravest (Continued policies by the veteran statesman, Prince Satonji, he said, was par-Licularly interested in Japan's foreign relations, especially with China, and was of the opinion that Sino-Japanese Telations formed the cornerstone of Major Crises Next Year Geneva, Bay 10.
The greatest strain on the world's peace machinery since the signature Of the Versailles Treaty will come ext year, informed diplomats pre-let. to-day.
The never-ending disarmament conference may even carry over its Perennial crisis into. 1995, st is. felt some circles. Quarters addicted pessimism fear there will not leven be a League of Nations in 1835 {the disarmament conference. ends complete failure this year.
(Officials of the League, however, are not #0 gloomy. Although they admit. that the League is beset with ficulties and will face even greater {roubles in 1995, they are confident that, out of this series of crises, will emerge a stronger and better League.
Next year, they feel, will see the worst of the political crises. In Eu-Tope, the Saar plebiscite will focalize attention on Franco-German dificult ties. The 1095 naval conference will bring matiers to a head between the: ifreat_paval powers interested in the for East. And finally' the decision fof Japan and Germany to leave the remain in when their notices expire will test the univer ality of the League's peace machin-
"These three crises, one European, one Pacife ani one universal, will decide, they say, whether the world thes to scrap the League or over haul it 16 make it the institution it was. originally" intended.
'These are questions which nobody can answer at the present time but fo. which diplomats and officials here' are "giving most serious thought—United Press.
Questions in Commons London, May 7.
Japan loomed large in the discussions in the House of Commons to-aay.
Mr. Harcourt Johnstone, National Liberal_member for South Shields, started the ball rolling by asking why he third Japanese principle, which Mr. K. Hirota, the Japanese Foreign
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