According to the local Jay newspaper, "Peking Shimbun, Japanese authorities are considering the stationing of consular police in various districts in North China as a result of the influx, of' Japanese subjects since the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities in North China last July.—Reuter. to reason or self-interest, by alliances and understandings, or even by the so-called international law, which, because it is not clearly based upon the unchanging law of God, is a code of only indefinite extent and validity. The only means of ave-ting the impending cataclysm is an appeal to some higher and universally recognized authority. In past centuries all nations acknowledged that the only such authority was found in the person of the Roman Pontiff, and, we have seen how: frequently he "was invoked to aid in the establishment or preservation of peace.
Present day conditions, however. have brought it about that the Holy See cannot and will not arbitrate between quarrelling nations unless it is invited to do so by all the interested parties. But that this can, and even now does happen. is clearly seen in the settlement by Pope Pius XI of the Colombia-Peru differences in 1928, for which he was heartily thanked by both sides.
It should be clear, then, to all who w the present crisis with an impartial ey aware of the facts, that the one person in the world whose loyal subjects number millions in every country and who therefore can and must be non-partisan; who exerts a moral power over millions of consciences that would bend the obstinacy of any man or people determined on a manifest course of injustice—that one person is the most neglected and at the same time the greatest potential factor in securing that which every one of us so ardently desires—world-wide, Christian peace. And it should be equal ly clear that until this situation is remedied, there will not be and cannot be any such lasting peace worthy of the name.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.