Japan's ultimate aims north and south of the Wall are
not yet clear, but all the indications are that she will pursue them methodically, completely indifferent to everything that has so far happened at Geneva. That is not surprising, for the League has not yet_ nerved itself to go even so far as to endorse the Lytton .
Commission's studiously mild strictures on what Japan has done in Manchuria. The Assembly's Committee of Nineteen meets again next week, and despite all the efforts that may be made to achieve further delays under the name of conciliation, one concrete question, , whether agreement on the non-recognition of Manchukuo is to be recorded, may be definitely forced to a decision.
At present the League States, our own chief among them, refuse to take their stand by the Covenant, because they fear the effect on Japan. And Japan consolidates Manchukuo and captures Shanhaikwan.
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