With -all- the League's. failures. in the' past taken into consideration, it was the opinion of the Chinese Government that the League was capable of serving the cause of peace, and that the member states, especially the most responsible ones, were willing pud ready to extend full support to its efforts, Real antidotes to war, Dr. Koo then declared, were not necessarily to be found in war itself—as President Roosevelt had said, there were "measures short of war which'are capable of exerting pressure upon an aggressor." One stich measure was the boy-chit of goods produced by an aggressor nation, "Ta the. present case, the prohibition of fihports of Japanese goods would strike at the bases of Japanese economy in a short time.
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