The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-21
WORLD DEFIED
BY JAPANESE
IN new DRIVE
Deliberate SCrapping of
Treaties Is Charged in
Chinchow Campaign.
U. S. STAND IS PUZZLE
Toxic CANDLES on Lack OF
Agreement Among
Great Powers.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Japan's
decision to drive the Chinese from
Chinchow at all costs brings the
United States and the League of
Nations up against the ughest and
most embarrassing international
crisis since the armistice.
Capture of Chinchow by Nippons
troops would mean:
/. Deliberate. formal. and official
violation of the Kellogg pact, pledg-
ing Japan not to resort to war as
an instrument of national policy
2. Deliberate, formal, and Official
violation of the nine-power treaty.
which binds Japan not to take adj
vantage of China's turmoil to inn
pair her territorial or administra-
tive integrity.
Violates other Pacts
3. Deliberate. formal and official
violation of the covenant of the
League of Nations pledging sigma
tories to exhaust every peaceable
means of settling international dis
putes before reSorting to force.
4. Deliberate, formal and official
violation of the two-week- pledge
to the council Of the league,
at Paris, and to washington, not
to renew hostilities in Manchuria
pending findings of an international
commission of inquiry.
5. Deliberate formal and official
fiouting of the worlds peace ma
chinery generally, so laboriSusly
built up since the armistice.
s. An unmistakable stunning
blow to the world disarmament
conference scheduled to meet at
Geneva just six weeks from to-
morrow.
7. A deliberate challenge to the
rest of the world at moment when
it is up to its neck in its own grave
troubles
World Is Defed
In effect. Japan deliberately is
using force to consolidate her ma
tional interests in Manchuria and
is asking an otherwise sadly ha-
raised world what it intends to do
about it.
What washington and the other
powers will do about it, in case
Japan goes ahead, admittedly IS
problematical. Japan's willy guess
that the other nations would floun-
der around and perhaps do nothing
drastic seems, at this writing, to be
as good as any.
In his message to congress, Presi-
dent Hoover expressed great con-
Germ" over the difficulties between
China and Japan, for maintenance
of the spirit of the Kellogg pact land
the treaties to which we are a party
assuring the territorial integrity Of
China"
Boycott Is Possible
Renewed aggression in Manchuria
now that the army faction is in
control at Tokio-might conceivably
be followed by number of steps,
notably these:
First, publication of the CORE
spondence ! exchanged between
Washington and Toxic to put the
United States on record before the
world as opposed to Japan's treaty
violations.
Second, invocation of the nine
power treaty signed by this coun-,
try. Japan, Great Britain, France.
Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Holland
and China for the purpose of pre-
venting precisely what now is hap
pening.
Third, recall of diplomatic repre-
sentatives from Toxic.
Fourth. the boycott of Japan.
About year ago Senator Capper
of Kansas introduced a resolution
binding the United States not to aid,
nor to protect its nationals in aid
ing any nation violating the Kel-
logg pact with supplies of any kind.
Butler Urged Passage
At the time DR.. Nicholas MUIR
ray Butler. this years winner of the
Nobel peace award urged quick
passage Of the Capper resolution.
Said he:
Let It be supposed that some
government signatory to the pact
Of Paris proceeds, for reasons sat-
factory to itself, to break its plight
ed faith
What will the American people
do about it,"
Will they permit their govern
ment to haggle and to dawdle and
complacently say that they will act
when the time comes?" or, he add
ed, will they require their gov
eminent to say now, by the passage
of the Capper measure, that it will
not aid the pledge breaker with
Supplies?"