Present Crisis Crucial Test of Collective System of Security, Says Dr. W. W. Yen Geneva, Sept 11.
The faith of the Chinese people "in the peace machinery of the League of Nations and its principles has not, been diminished despite the fact that ils lack of courage to bring wrongdoers to reason has greatly disap-ointed them, Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinese Ambassador to Soviet Russia and chief of the Chinese delegation, declared at this morning's session of the League Assembly. The Chinese people's love of peace, Dr. Yen stated, thas bound them inextricably with the cardinal principles of the League succinelly enunciated in the: Lesgue Government.
Their faith in the League as an} instrument of peace his not been shakened, Dr. Yen added; on the contrary, circumstances having made them the League's outpost in the Far: East, the Chinese are now more than, ever resolvell and determined to contribute their share to promote in-
security. ternational ce-operation, peace and "We only ask that we be given an opportunity to, be better able to carry out our wish, said Dr. Yuen, At the outset of his speech, Dr. Yer, ald that the Chinese Government was gralitied to note that a Power which formed one of the pillars of the League, facing @ serious situation in Europe, now realized that vorle peace depended upon their offer's to ut new life into the League.
The League at Sake "If the League again failed to exert {ts authority," Dr, Yen added, "is would irretrievably ruin the efficacy of the League as a peace instrument between nation:
"Hence we witness," he continued, "that responsible governments have made the declaration that the League must form the cornerstone" of their foreign policies and the; the conclusion of regler supplement te a guarantee for their Fespedtive ached to one region's security over another's For certain states over
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