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War that Wasn't q War.

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actually declaring war; hence, Japan
was able to maintain that the slaugh-
ter of thousands of Chinese and the
wanton destruction of sections OF
Shanghai as we'll as the laying waste
of Manchurian regions wasn't war.
at all.
In due time the League Of Nations
stepped in, only to be rebuffed by the
declaration that mo war has been
declared; no, Japan was merely pro
tecting her interests"-just as the
white powers do it!
World opinion. pretty solidly lined
up against Japan. has accomplished
nothing. Japan refers to her teachers
to the Machiavellian doctrine that
there must be no inquiry into the
purity of the means employed"
When charged with having violated
International treaties-such as the
League of Nations pact, the nine
power treaty of 1922, guaranteeing
China's territorial integrity, and the
Briand-Kellogg treaty against war.
all Consigned by Japan-the Tokyo
government claims it has scrupulously
complied with them all,
Postpone mentS.
BY using time-wOrn diplomatic SUBJ
terfuges Japan has succeeded in win
ming several pOstponements of the
publication of the LyttOn commits
siOn's report on the Asiatic war
and the text is not yet available.
Before the League of Nations coun-
Gil i'm Geneva, Japan early this week
secured postponement of the debate
on her conflict with China-until
November H.
In view of the fact that some of the
League powers are not too anxious to
administer kicks to the Japanese
powder keg, some people consider it
doubtful that anything will ever be
done about it all.
In the mean time, Japan has
created an independent state
Manchukuo-in the heart of Chinese
Manchuria-which is to all intents
and purposes merely conquered, and
permanently occupied. Japanese ter
ritory.
GandhrS Hunger Strike.
In another part of Asia, Mahatma
Gandhi, the great leader of the Hin
dus, Tuesday of last week began an
attempt to starve himself to death in
order to protest against the British
governments decision to segregate in
a rather humiliating way the ''un-
al. IL .,l - sntA
cial groups of voters.
Hero, martyr. mailman, crank or
fanatic, Gandhi again has demon
strated his mastery ability to focus
the attention of the world upon the
injustice which he claims Great
Britain visits on his compatriots. for
with bated breath people in all cOun-
tries followed this moving drama of
a man slowly dying of hunger-be-
cause of an idea: a man willing to
sacrifice his own life in the belief
that right ultimately would conquer
might; a man so extraordinarily
gifted that he once more demonstrates
the irresistibility of the power of
sheer personality. What puny souls
Gandhii
England Yields.
Naturally. the very humane and
level-headed gentleman who is Great
Britain's prime minister, ]. Ramsay
Macdonald, could not suffer the
thought of Gandhi sacrificing his life
for the sake of the pariah cause; and
naturally. the mighty British govern
ment trembled at the thought of the
Indian rebellion that seemed newt
able were Gandhi to die in this way.
So, when caste Hindus and pariahs
had reached a fundamental agree
ment defining their respective polit-
ical rights, and abandoning the prin-
ciple of pariah segregation, London
was informed by cable, and the Brit
ish government found it prudent to
yield to Gandhi's demands
Thus, once more emaciated, insig-
nificant-lOoking Gandhi was able to
record another one-man victory over
the mightiest of all the earth's en-
pires.
What is it about this man? Divine
spark? Powerful character?
When asked. he merely says:
my ineradicable faith in the tri-
umph of justice"
German Armaments.
An outstanding feature of the dis
cussions now going on at the disarma-
ment conference bureaus, the League
of Nation councils, and the League of
Nations general assembly meetings in
Geneva is Germany's publicly pro-
claimed intention to increase her
own ornaments as long as all other
nations have failed to keep their
disarmament pledges, embodied in
the Versailles peace treaty.
France and England have rebuked
Germany quite severely for this atti-
tude; the United States has merely
expressed the wish that Germany
would continue her participation in
disarmament conferences; Russia,
Italy-and Arthur Henderson, presi-
dent of the disarmament conference