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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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where Japan, according to interna
tional law and morals, certainly ha:
no right to be. Peiping-the PekiI
that was the very capital of China
until few years ago-is teemins
with Japanese soldiers.
The situation has developed to &
point where observers now speak o.
virtual military occupation havins
, taken place.
No Protection.
And China? Well, China help
lessly lets it all happen There is
nothing to be done about it. There
is no outside help in sight anywhere
and China's own forces cannot cope
with the Japanese.
But what about all those powers
who so solemnly, headed by the
United States, in Washington four
teen years ago, entered into treaty
for the purpose of guaranteeing
China's independence and territorial
integrity? Japan was one of them
by the way.
What about the treaty signers?
Aren't they doing anything to enforce
the guarantees? Don't they, at least
send some notes of protest? Don't
they send word of stern warning
to Tokyo?
The answer is that if they do, they
certainly do it in profound secrecy,
and the presumption is that not one
of these powers to date has moved
as much as a finger to protest against
the open violation of treaty which
they themselves had signed.
The occupation of North China
for such it is conceded to be-is one
more proof there have, as you
know, been several in recent times)
that international treaties count for
nothing at a critical moment. Even
the League of Nations, of which
China is a member, seems to remain
absolutely silent, realizing, perhaps,
opia, it does not possess any authority
which would be respected by Japan
more than it was when few years
back that country bloodily conquered
a vast part of Chinese Manchuria and
erected there a socalled empire-that
of Manchukuo.
Populous as China is, it is, in a
political and military sense, de-
fenseless country, a weak nation.
Big-power treaties, and the League
of Nations covenant, exist primarily
for the purpose of protecting the
weak against aggression by the
strong.
And yet, Japan marches into China
without even diplomatic resistance!
Those thoroughly familiar with de-
velopments in the Far East, are pre-
dieting that Japan will never stop
until all of China is placed under
the Flag of the Rising Sun.
Wants League Meeting.
The Asiatic developments ought to
be taken into consideration, but APP
parently are not, in connection with
demand from the Argentine repub-
lie that the League assembly and
council be summoned for an extra
ordinary session in Geneva about the
middle of this month. Argentina
wants to know what about the Italo-
ETHIOPIAN war? What about the con-
tinuance of ineffective economic sane
tions against Italy? What about re-
vising the covenant in order to build
stronger world organization for the
maintenance of peace?
Leaders of the League have not yet
replied to Argentina. But people in
all countries have lost confidence in
the League because it has not yet
solved one major problem, has not
yet lived up to it's high purpose. And
the League says the reason is that
the United States stayed out from the
beginning, that Japan and Germany
have since left it. Therefore, they
claim, the League machinery is in
adequate.-In which there is more
than a grain of truth.