Somehow or other, despite the excellence of the intentions governing its institutions, Geneva seems liable to indulge in expressions which by their brahminical odour nauseate rather than instil fragrance into the international mind. Japan's aggression in China merits and has received the severest condemnation. The Gestruction and desolation here—direct products of that unwarrantable aggression are plain enough to see. This view has been appropriately expressed no doubt by diplomatic methods as well as by observation in the responsible press of the world. It is necessary, however, to distinguish between a policy and the nation which has incautiously adopted it. Japan, her friends as well as her enemies think, has made a tragic error in entrusting her destinies for the time being to the authors of the policy whose fruits are so grimly to be perceived in Shanghai. That does not justify facile talk of exposing Japan to "moral isolation" for the wise man hopes that, by persuasion allied to the lessons of experience, the Japanese people will come to realize their error. It is justifiable to lose no opportunity of emphasizing that point, but the development of a new theory of "untouchability" in the cause of collective security is not helpful.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.