Already, we see the beacon ahead. The solidarity of the nation will carry us through the crisis. We shall have to suffer but suffer we will cheerfully to make China safe against aggression and to make the world safe for humanity.
So China is not fighting for our country alone, Lord Cranborne of Great Britain pointed out to the League members and rightly so, that the Japanese aerial activity in China was a menace to the whole world.
He fittingly asked, "If this tendency is to continue and to be intensified, cán civilization itself survive?" Mr.
Cordell Hull the United States Secretary of State, also declared, "The American Government, as has Been set forth in its note to Tokyo on September 22, holds the view that amy general bombing of an extensive area wherein resides a large populace engaged in peaceful pursuits is unwarranted and contrary to the principles and laws of humanity." M. Yvon Delbos, the French delegate, even said that silence would be a complicity to the crime. Civilization itself, he added, would be placed in danger, if the conscience of the world did not raise Us voice at this time.
We agree with the best friends of China that Chima's salvation lies in the hands of the Chinese people. But when: the welfare of the whole civilized world is at stake, is it too much for us to ask that the people of other nations should see the danger of "sitting in splendid isola-Yon," to quote our new friend from old England?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.