CRISIS AT GENEVA
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—For sheer bias the article Crisis at Geneva " should be given a leading place. It seems a trifle like scare- mongering to state " If those principles are discarded Europe will swiftly crumble into chaos." I respectfully submit that it will take considerably more than the Japanese flouting of the League's decision on a question of which there is a good deal to be said on both sides to cause Europe or any other continent to " crumble into 'chaos." However, it would be well to hear whether the writer of the article in question sees a great deal of difference in Japan's position in Manchukuo and ours in South Africa, Egypt, the Sudan or (to go' farther back) in India ; and whether he would not agree that it is to the advantage of the world in general to have an organized and guided State than one revelling in disorganization, banditry, and perhaps finally Communism.
—I am, Sir, &c., N. SINCLAIR REID. 17 Whitehall Road, Harrow.
[The bias charged against the article is at any rate shared by all the forty-two States, including Great Britain, which voted a resolution condemning Japan as an' aggressor. It is incontestably true that if the principles on which the League of Nations rests are discarded Europe will swiftly crumble into chaos. As to the comparison between Japan's action to-day and some of our own in the past, there is, it is to he hoped, some distinction between the standards of a pre- League and a post-League age.—En. The Spectator.]
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