Dr, Wellington Koo, the chief Chie ese delegate, was' the principal speaker when' the Committee of 25 mot again to-day to discuss the re= form of the League of Nation Dr. Koo vald he did not think that the Covenant had been drawn up with the assumption that the League Would be universal. "The League's wenknens, he declared, could not be attributed to tack of Universality or tiny defeat in Article XVI (sanetions).
'Hitherto, the stated, too much account had been taken' of inexpediency in apply the Covenant, and the remedy was the adoption of poley for applying 'A League not having means of coercion, he asserted, would not be a, truo League of Nations, and Intermediate class of League would hot, be very effective.
In the end, Dr, Koo pointed out, the fundamental "principles of the being ald to China; "Calls the very serious attention of League members to the terms of the' said resolution; 'Hag confidence that those of its members for whom the Far Eastern' Situation is of special interest will hot allow aay opportunity to escape' fof, examining, in consultation with other Powers equally interested, the] Possibility to effier means capable of contributing to a just settlement of} the conflict"
Before "the passage of the resolution, Dr, Wellington Koo made reservations.
The extreme gravity of the situa tion in the Far East," he suid, "calls for the adoption by the Couticil of] concrete and energetic measures, The Fesolution,. while it gives further evidence of the sympathetic spirit which inspires the Assembly's solution of October 6 last year, s, in our view, inadequate to meet' the exigencies of the ose, "Nevertheless, I accept it in the [name of my Government, confidently believing that a greater' effort than fnitherto. will be given in the terms for the said Assembly resolution and that the proposed examination will be pursued with energy and promptness, and reserving the right foe my Government to ask the League to adopt positive measures under the Covenant In order to dlzcouroge Sapanese aggression more effectively and toad China in her heroic resistance, wish to add that my acceptances is also based on the understanding that the Counet will remain seized fof the appeal of the Chinese Govern tment invoking Articles 10,:1 and 17 of the Covenant."
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