No single Power felt justified in taking the initiative in recommending, a less passive policy, and, in these circumstances, hard facts imposed restraint upon all-Tt Is possible, indeed, that this restraint may prove in the end to have been beneflelal by preventing decisions which, in the present temper of Japan, might have barred the door against mediation.
"The Times" adds that the British Government have nothing with which to reproach themselves for the failure (which may be only temporary) of the first concerted attempt to bring peace In the Far East.
They were randy to go to all tenths: with any other Power, which had eonstructive proposals to that end. Recent experience, however. had tausint them the uselessness of taking the initiative defending international without assurances that they would obtain something more than platonic support.
Without such assurances, "The believes, they could not reasonably commit their country to a course of action which would i ably have ended in fiasco.
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