The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-08
BY GABRIEL PERI Paris

On Friday morning the oath Feb
ruaIy, the extraordinary meeting of
the League of Nations unanimously
adopted the Far-Eastern Report of
the Committee of Nineteen. Only
one member of the League, namely,
Japan, answered with q No, and
only one, namely, Siam, withheld
it's vote. Siam obviously did not
wish to get into ill-favour with
either of the contending parties.
AS, however, abstention from yot-
ing is regarded as the same as alb
Sence, and Japan being an inte-
rested party, its vote against the
report is not taken into account,
the Chairman, Hyman, declared
the report of the Committee OF
Nineteen to be adopted unanimous
ly.
Before the vote was taken, the
representatives Of China and ia
pan once again defended their res
pectiYe theses.
The Chinese delegate, Yen, EN-
phasized that the views of Marking
and the Geneva were in agreement
on the following points: 1. Recogni-
ton of Manchuria as an INSOFAR
able part of China; 2. Recognition
Of the boycott measures against ia
pan as a retaliatory measure on the
part Of China; 8. Recognition Of the
fact that China declared itself
ready to submit the Sino-Japanese
question to arbitration, whilst ia
pan refused to submit the conflict
TO arbitration; 4. Recognition Of
the fact that the events of Novem-
Der 10 and 10, 1881 were not an act
of Self-defence on the part of ia
pan; 5. Non-recognttion of Man
chukuo; 6. China is not responsible
for the events in the Far East after
18th September 1881; 7. The eva
cuation of Manchuria by the ia
panese troops is a technical ques-
ton and not subject to any poll
teal conditions; 8. Cooperation of
the two big Powers on the Pacific
UNITED States of America and the
Soviet Union) is valuable and de-
sirable for the restoration of peace
in the Far East.
IMPERIALIsT
SPEAKS
The japanese representative, Mat
zuoka, repeated the following main
thesis, which he had continually
put forward in his earlier speeches:
China is big territory, but not a
nation according to the western
sense Of the word. For twenty
years a revolution has been pro-
ceeding in China. A catastrophe
has occurred. Japan wishes to es-
tablish law and order. The League
Of Nations, on its part, is to blame
for having supported the hopes of
China and allowed it to offer fur
ther resistance to the attempts of
Japan to restore order in China.
Matszuoka then opposed the idea of
international control envisaged in
the Lytton Report, and emphasized
that Japan would oppose any at
tempt to set up any kind of inter-
national control in Manchuria.
After the vote, which proved I'M
favorable for Japan, Matszuoka
confined himself to declaring that
the Japanese government had ex-
hausted, or almost entirely ex-
hausted, the possibilities of co-ope-
rating with the League of Nations
in solving the Sino-Japanese con-
flict, but he did not say word
about it being impossible for ia
pan to remain in the League of
Nations.
Matszuoka's only demonstration
consisted in his leaving the hall, to-
gether with the whole Japanese
delegation, three minutes before
the conclusion of the sitting.
Japan's withdrawal from the
League of Nations would be such
an important event that one can
not neglect to deal with it,
VAR IN
FAR EAST
War in the Far East Is develop
ing at an accelerated pace. The OBJ
ject of this war Is Jehol, the con-
troll OF the big Asiatic- European
railway lines at their terminal
points. and the setting up In this