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Since Mr. Pieste so rightly insists on thinking of "things 'a8 they are" may not be amiss once again to recall the fact that the Lytton Commission Was appointed to "intervene" in. the Manchurian affairs on the direct proposal of the- Japanese representative at Geneva. "The League may be criticized for not moving "quickly enough when China made her appeal in September 1931, but the intervention took the form as proposed by the very, nation which was "infuriated" by it according to Mr. Fiesse. It is quite true that when the Commission arrived inthe Far East, Japanese policy had sutlered a sea-change but Geneva could hardly blamed for that, Moreover, the Lytton Report is universally admitted {10 have been a masterly document of Impertiality "and practical com-nonsense. There again the League could not be blamed because it still is in the pigeon-hole, Japan's. present problem in Manchuria and" North ina would be far simpler it she could have seen her way to waive preconceived prejudices and accepted that document as a basis for solution, Nor is it inopportune to remind Mr, Plesse that the failure of the member-states to stand by the Covenant over the Nanchurian issue snow perceived to have been the direct cause of the disastrous Europe breakdown which led to Germany's withdrawal from the League, Italy's defiance of it in Abyssinia and the acute anxieties over rearmament presently confronting Empire and Australian statesmen,
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