The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-24
WORLD PEACE
CRISIS LAID TO
U. S. T|MIDITY
LukeWarm Stand to Doom
Treaties, Says Foreign
Relations Expert.
MANCHURIA ISSUE CLEAR
UnflinChing Support Behind
League Would Check
Japan, Is Claim.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
ScripDs-HOward Foreign Editor

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps-HOward Foreign Editor
NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Failure of
the United States and the League
OF Nations to curb the Manchurian
conflict, Raymond Leslie Buell. of
the Foreign Policy Association, told
the writer today, will seal the doom
of the world peace machinery and
disarmament
Buell. is director of the research
department Of his organization. 1t
is his business to know world condi-
tions intimately. He travels much
and gets his information at first
hand.
In fact, if not in law" Buell. de-
clared, "a state of war exists in
Manchuria. But while the United
states and the league council pro-
less devotion to the anti-war pact
and the league covenant, they mere
ly are temporizing with the stu
= alton.
"A policy of patience during the
initial period may have been JUS
Illleo, but unless peace soon is re-
stored, the whole world structure
DaSed upon the anti-war pact and
Inc covenant will be in danger of
collapse.
If the league and the United
states fail in this crisis, they will
1all even more signally in future
crises. Nations and peoples, dis
lllusloned as to the value of treaty
safeguards, will cling to their ar
maments more strongly than ever.
Means Future Failure
"The league and the United
States can not fail in settling the
present crisis without dealing
death blow to world peace machin-
cry and to the movement for arma-
ment reduction.
In the past ten years, the nations
OF the world have signed treaty
after treaty pledging themselves
against aggression. If, despite this
maze of peace pacts, wars are to
continue, the result will be world
wide and black despair.
IF Japanese interests really are
endangered, an international COM
mission would say so and sanction
measures of policing. If Japan be-
lieves China has violated treaty
obligations it should bring the
question before the league council
in accordance with the principles
of international law.
"In its fundamentals, the issue
in Manchuria is clear. 1t is sim
ply this: Is Japan willing to re-
sort to orderly methods of proceed
ure-such as those underlying the
Kellogg pact, the nine-power treaty
and the league covenant, all of
which she signed? Or will she in
Sist upon the method of brute force
which in the past always has been
abused to the injury of the weak?
Invitation to Others
IF the league and the United
States can not induce Japan to
make use of orderly, lawful meth
DDS now, it is hard to believe they
will succeed in restraining any
other power from taking the law
into its own hands in the future.
Part of the responsibility for the
weakness of the league in the pres
ent crisis has been due to the hest
tant policy of the United States.
One week. our representatives par
ticipate in meetings of the council.
The next week, we refuse to par
ticipate.
1--WE claim to be participating full
ly with the league. Yet we decline
to publish the text of the notes we
have addressed to Japan. More
over, the state department failed to
support the proposal that neutral
commission of inquiry investigate
conditions in Manchuria. 1t also
failed to support the league recon-
mendation that Manchuria be
evacuated by Nov. Is.
Firm Stand at First
Had the United States taken a
firm, uhflinching stand at the be-
ginning; had it really co-operated
intellectually with the league; it
is my belief that the present crisis
in Manchuria would already have
disappeared.
Every days delay has served to
make the solution more difficult.
The United States should join
the other powers in urging Japan
to accept a neutral commission to
assist in the evacuation of japanese
troops and in the subsequent treaty
discussions.
In case Japan conceivably
should refuse this request, the
United States should join with the
others in withdrawing ambassadors
from Toxic.
"And if all other measures con-
ceivably should fail, the United
States should consider seriously its
relationship to league of nations
boycott.
"a policy of lukewarm note writ
ing will not guarantee the peace of
the world"