The Washington times., 1922-03-11

The particular situation in such
case under the terms OF the pact ls
simply and only the aggressive ac-
ton of China against Japan.
This treaty says nothing what
soever about the rights of any
powers outside the treaty. The only
particular situations 1t contem.
plates are situations which the
signatory powers may find Injurious
or inconvenient to themselves.
How Japan Can Scheme. /
Japan. then. finding itself neon
| venienced in Formosa, summons the
United States and Great Britain and
France to help IL handle that neon
venience. that 'exigency.' There
upon we shall have the following
amazing state OF things, which every
American loyal TO the traditions OF
this country and every American
pledged TO the American ideals which
were put into the League Of Nations
must view not only with shame. but
with the deepest alarm both for the
United States and for the league.
THE league will have the right
and the duty to consider the dispute
between China. and Japan and with
both China and Japan present.
Meanwhile the United States, the
historic friend OF China, will be sum
moned to communications In which
which China Will be absent. The
special treaty ties Of the United
States, the special treaty communica-
lions Of the United States, viii be
not with China but with the special
enemy Of China.
Pact Throttles League.
"China thereupon will all the more
earnestly appeal to the league Be-
tween the league then and the four
power pact there will at once arise a
sharp conflict Of Jurisdiction. The
league will have the duty to consider
the dispute regarding Formosa. The
four r-power pact will have the duty to
consider It. What will be the result?
THE result will be determined by
the fact that the United States Is
not yet a member of the league.
The four-power pact, with the Unit
ed States In IL. will be stronger on
the coasts of Asia than the league
with the United States not In It.
The decisions OF the four-power pact
will have more weight than the de-
cisions Of the league. The league
will be driven from its Jurisdiction
In the Far East. A whole region
OF the world will be lost to It.
This treaty Ia not only contradic-
tory to the ideals of international
democracy and OF representative In.
national society toward which the
league aspires. but hostile also and
subversive to the very existence of
the league.
1T remvoes the league and the
leagues democratic methods from
the Far East. and II substitutes
for the league an alliance and for
decisions by the many decisions by
the few.
1T is contrary to the principles
of this country as laid down by
Thomas jefferson and as carried to
Paris by Woodrow Wilson. II makes
the United States in the Far East
the companion only OF the nations
which are the aggressors in the
Far East, and II makes the United
States also the very instrument for
the shattering of the League which !
the United States at the moment
of its loftiest moral vision suggested |
and ibequeathed to the world.
Agent for Destruction.
. Inc hepuplCans, Wnen out OF
office under the last Administration, |
succeeded in making the United |
States a non-member of the league. |
They now In possession OF office pro- |
pose to make the United States the |
agent for the actual destruction of |
the league.
They propose TO go directly |
counter to its ideals In the Pacific |
and In the Far East and in the |
whole great region In which the |
future destiny OF the mass Of man. |
kind Ia centered. They propose to |
rend the ancient friendship between
America and China, TO substitute a |
clique Of powers for a society OF |
powers in the Far East, to put |
America into that clique, to make |
that clique thus stronger than the |
international democratic society of |
great powers and of little powers |
organized at Paris and perpetuated |
at Geneva, and so TO begin TO de- |
stroy the world democracy which |
the Democratic party is sworn to |
defend and TO promote.
That In the true final meaning |
of the four-power pact for America |
and for the Far East and for the
world"