Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-13
SEE Scores Japan's
aggression in
Plea to League.
BRAND PRESIDES
AT PEACE SESSION
Marking Hopes ArePlaced
i'm Covenant and Kel-
logg Treaty.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GENEVA, October 10. The
League of Nations Council heard
both sides of the Sino-Japanese
conflict in Manchuria today and
adjourned until tomorrow or later
without taking action.
DR.. Alfred SEE, representing
China, demanded that the League
act against what he called Japa-
nese military aggression, not only
in the interests of peace in Man
churia, but on the ground that
unless we can cooperate in this
grave emergency, we shall fail to
instill any confidence in interna-
tional security and order"
Kenkichi Yoshizawa, the Japa-
nese spokesman, insisted on con-
tinuing direct negotiations with
China, and disavowed his govern
ment's responsibility for the Man
churian troubles.
Invokes Covenant and Pact.
DR.. SEE, asserting that the hope for
world disarmament depends upon the
Leagues action now, demanded that the
League direct immediate withdrawal Of
Japanese troops from Manchuria.
He invoked the League Of Nations
covenant and the Kellogg pact as
corner stones of world peace" and as
serted that China has lived up to the
| principles of the League under terrible
provocations."
He emphasized that quick action is
essential if most unhappy results" are
to be avoided.
while he spoke, the diminutive Ken
kichi Yoshizawa, Japan's representative.
sat impassively on the other side OF
the council table.
Proclamations Recalled.
when our territory was suddenly in
yaded on a vast scale, our towns laid
waste and our peaceful citizens done to
deaLh, what was our reply?" asked Dr.
SEE.
The reply, he said, was in the form
of three executive proclamations calling
on the Chinese to remain calm and
await the Leagues action.
THE covenant and the Kellogg pact
are our two sheet anchors to which we
have moored our ship of state" he SAID,
land with the help of these We believe
we shall ride out this storm.
But the covenant and pact are also
the corner stone of a worldwide edihce
| of peace, and if they crumble that edi-
! flee collapses.
rs it likely that nations who had
witnessed this tragic collapse OF the
covenant and pact at the frst great
test would assemble quietly at Geneva
in February to diSarm? Would they
not rather draw the conclusion that
after all each state must rely on its
own armed forces and on that alone?
Security and Arms Linked.
And with the idea of disarmament
goes the whole idea of international
security, for the two are indissolubly
linked. If We fail now, when America
offers her cooperation, and fail in Feb
ruary with disarmament, what chance
have we of working out some form OF
permanent association, some provision
for conference under the Kellogg pact
to avert threats to peace?
However remote and irrelevant this
disturbance in the Far East may seem
to the West, engrossed in its pressing
cares, the web of fate finds US all to-
gether and unless We can cooperate
effectively in this grave emergency We
shall fail in disarmament, we shall fan
to instill any confidence in interna-
tional security and order, and by the
same token we shall fail to grapple
with the world economic crisis.
China has put herself in the hands
of the League and abides the issue with
confidence in her destiny and in the
moral forces of civilization. The
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