the sportsmen of China wrong in importing polities into Far Eastern Olympic games by refusing to compete if representatives Jot Manchoukuo were owed to take art, it was, nevertheless, perfectly understandable. It would have been more comprehensible if they hi refused to participate so long as 'Japan was represented at the games, Yor whatever the reason for desiring to exclude Manchoukuo, the same would apply with greater force far as Japan was concerned' which country, after all, must still be the arch-betrayer in' Chinese eyes. Be that as it may the intrigue which has resulted in the exclusion of China from the newly formed Amateur Athletic Association of the Orient reflects upon the sportsmanship and good will of the Philippines as well as Japan. 'The wh matter, as the "Manila Bulletin' rightly' says, is a shabby affair, Why the Philippines should have been persuaded to take sides is a little dim cult to understand. The maintenance of a neutral attitude would have been a most statesmanlike proceeding in this instance, for would have emphasized the desirability of not allowing politics to enter into sport and at the same time have left the whole matter open for leisurely discussion be tween now and the next Olympic mes. With feeling such as it is against the new slate in China it was understandable, though nevertheless wrong, that Chinese athletes should refuse to meet Manchoukuo the stadium, but the Japanese and the Filipinos by the perpetration of another wrong cannot possibly hope to establish a right. It will wot be surprising if China refuses to have anything to do with the' new for Tt would be against dignity "if at any future time her athletes sought membership in this newly created body. It certainly should not do so and can only await the time when the new sociation will invite China to join. That, amounting to a confession of the "original wrongdoing, may be late in coming, but if and when it does come there can only be one decision as to who ultimately. loves "face" in the matter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.