Evening star., 1931-12-23
League Efforts in Far East
Analyzed in General Debate

government" and holds that she Is
firmly placed on the mainland and
nothing will dislodge her The Sioux
City Journal believes that China
fighting to retain M3nchuria merely
would be struggling without hope OF
any gain whatever. except maintenance
Of honor and integrity. and that in q
losing venture" The Philadelphia Eve
ming Bulletin offers the comment: The
Councils resolution sets no date for
Japanese withdrawal to the railway
zone, simply expressing expectation
that it shall take place as speedily as
possible. Japan all along has promised
to withdraw as soon as protection to
its nationals and their property are
assured. The International Commits
sion Of Inquiry. to which Japan has
aSSented, will not interfere with the
military arrangements OF either party.
Japan can hardly hold out for any
more without alternating the sympathy
1t has had. China gives up more. and
the League has gone TO the limit Of
concession"
Despite errors and more than one
evidence of weakness asserts the
Rochester Times Union the League,
supported by the United States has
tory. Never before has a great power
gone so far as Japan has gone in
bowling to international authority"
The Omaha World-Herald concludes:
1t must be remembered that Japan
chose ShreWdly her hour for aggres-
sion. She hit upon time when the
nations of the League were all but
Frustrated by an unprecedented eco
nomtc cyclone. with neither the strength
nor the courage to deal vigorously with
new emergency. But even so. they
could rally. and did rally. the mighty
!mponderable Of the moral force of
world opinion and so organized and
directed 1t that even far-aWay Japan,
all-powerful in her own region, recos-
nized its resistless power"
The view of the CyniCS the world
around" advises the Dayton Daily
News, has been that Japan is now in
possession OF Manchuria and, spite Of
anything the world may do about 1t,
will continue TO hold what it has taken.
This is not in the least certain More
than once in the past Japan has been
forced by international pressure TO dis
gorge Chinese territory and concessions,
which, while the world was looking the
other way. it had eXtorted from China
This can happen again. Japan is too
much dependent upon the trade Of the
world to hold out against we'll
focused hostile world opinion"
out OF an aggressive move in remote
Asia" according to the Providence Bull
letin, have emerged new fears to worry
the world, new bogeys TO trouble, a new
spirit OF pessimiSm and wearness of
hope, new doubts If man can settle his
recurring strifes by peaceful methods,
new uncertainties as to limitations Of
guns. Japan has had her way but at
a high price" The Danbury Evening
News feels that "the prospects for the
success Of the nearing disarmament
conference are not too bright. with
the Far Eastern difficulty rearing
threatening head"
The issue TOR us is clear" in the
opinion OF the Chicago Daily Tribune.
The pacifist millennium IS not here,
and 1t has not been advanced by the
League or by the formal outlaWry OF
war in the Briand-Kellogg treaty No
people III the world is less inclined TO
war as an instrument of policy than
ours. Our conduct in the family Of
nations is not provocative or bellicose.
AS an independent force the United
States will exercise such influence as 1t
may have, in the spirit of its people,
for peace and the rational compromise
of differences But II it is to do so 1t
will cherish its independence of judg-
ment and action. 1t will have faith In
its own conscience and put its conf
dence In its own strength. 1t will dis
miss apology and vain dreams, and it
will make itself strong in its own right"