The resolution was also supported by M. Paul Boncour, French Permanent delegate to the League.
M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, declared that the Committee had found in the action of the Japanese Government all the elements of aggression, but still did not use the word-in deference to the feelings of some of the members.
The recommendations, declared Dr. Wellington Koo, the chief Chinese delegate, were far short of what the Chinese delegation had asked. The delegation. were prepared to accept them in a spirit of solidarity, however, it being understood that they reserved the right to present, on.a future occasion, proposals which the Committee were now unable to accept.
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