The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
WORLD PEACE
BURDEN RESTS
IN U. S. HANDS
Sino- Japanese Issue Sharp
Iy Clarified by Brands
Intervention Plea.
RUSSIAN QUIET OMNIBUS
BeIChing Cannon, AdvanC-
ing LegionS, Nippon'S Re-
ply to Timid Complaints.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howar Foreign Editor

WILLIAM
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2O.-The
beginning of the third month of
Japan's armed conquest of Man
churia-found the peace of the far
east, if not of the world, largely
hanging upon decisions to be made
at Washington.
And with it-likewise suspended
in the delicately adjusted balance
rested the fate of the entire
world peace machinery so labori-
ously built up since the World war.
In Manchuria, according to dis
patches received here, to the &C
compartment of vomiting guns and
crashing bombs, the Chinese are
fleeing in terror before the muffled
tread of steadily advancing Japa-
neSe, on the march through sub
zero weather and snow.
In Paris-where the council of
the League Of Nations sits in eX-
traordinary session trying to find
way to make the peace machinery
Work-three japanese ambassadors
are reported adamant against any
other solution than their own,
solution described as equivalent to
turning Manchuria into a Japanese
protectorate.
Chinese Impatient
simultaneously, the Chinese are
becoming impatient. Both in Paris
and in Marking, they are insisting
that Japan be made amenable to
the peace machinery. Otherwise, it
merely is a matter of time before
they begin a suicidal war in self
defense against which contingency
president Chang Kai-Shek already
is reported to be preparing an army
of approximately 100000 men.
Meanwhile, Soviet Russia, with
the second largest armyi nthe world
awaits developments while main
tanning an all too ominous silence.
Out of this sinister and menac-
ing situation, Aristide BRAND,
French foreign minister and presi-
dent of the council of the league,
has raised cry for help. The aid
of the United States, he says would
mean "a rapid and peaceful solu-
ton"
Only a united front on the part
of all the great powers, observers
agree, can prevent the japanese
getting away with their conquest.
And it was in reply to frank queS-
ton put to him by the United Press
that BRAND gave his equally frank
answer an open appeal for unity
to save the world from disaster.
Insure Peaceful Solution
If the United States would act
in the matter, Europe's grand old
man of peace declared, it wouldn't
matter much whether it acted in
dependently or in collaboration with
the league. In any event, lit would
clarity and strengthen the position
taken by the nations and insure a
rapid and peaceful solution"
The significance of Brands
words are not wasted on official
Washington. That is to say they
were not misunderstood. Premier
of France a dozen times and for
eign minister in almost every cabi-
net for decades, he never opens his
mouth-above all in times like these
unless he has a message to de-
liver.
That the United States has not
actively co-operated with the league
in all the leagues efforts to head
off war in Asia, openly is charged
in every capital of Europe, includ-
ing Geneva. Nor, it is remarked,
has it acted Independently with any
noticeable vigor, either to uphold
the Kellogg pact or the nine-power
treaty safeguarding China.
Administration newspapers in this
country have made even stronger
assertions. One of them-the New
York Herald-Tribun = made the
categorical statement that while
Washington was sending sharp
communications to Toxic, the Jap
anese ambassador here was being
given to understand that this coun-
try would not rest to strong meas
ures, regardless of what the league
might do.
Clinching Her Position
Be that as it may, that Japan is
convinced the United States and
the league are split over Manchuria
is being made increasingly obvious
daily by events themselves. Instead
of withdrawing her troops, she now
is reported as clinching her hold
] over practically the entire area.
To the timid or hesitant pleas Of
Washington and Geneva that she
observe the vital peace pacts, Japan
continues to answer with the thun-
der of her cannon the zoom of her
bombers and the tread of her adj
vancing legions.
AT Washington, as we'll as at
Paris, there is realization that the
time for showdown has come.
The first major test of the worlds
hard-won peace machinery is at
hand. and BRAND along with 9TH
ers, has put the issue Squarely up
to the United States.
Veteran Merchant Dies
BIZ United Press
MT. VERNON, Ind, Nov. 90
Jacob Rosenbaum, 70, for half a
century a Mt. Vernon merchant and