London, Dec. 12.
Newspapers today call attention sympathetically to China's position at Geneva and her decision not to vote on the Soviet-Finnish question.
The "News-Chronicle" says: "Many States are forced by circumstances to look to their own interests rather than uphold principles China certainly has no sympathy for aggressors, but dares not alienate Russia, whose continued help against Japan is vital to her. The fact that the League failed to expel Japan and Italy when they violated the Covenant does not necessarily mean such a course should not be followed now, inconsistent though it would be, but it would be quite improper to expel Russia because she is a Bolshevist State rather than because she is an aggressor.
"What the League can do," the "News-Chronicle" adds, "is to condemn Russian aggression in unmistakable terms, and urge all members to give help fo Finland. The League (Continued on page 8, col. 2)
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