10 NOVEMBER 1944, Page 4

fact that Lord Cecil should have declared on Tuesday that

if the strong measures urged by M. Litvinov in 1938 in the matter of Japanese aggression had been adopted the whole tragedy in which the world has since been plunged might have been averted. In that case the machinery for resistance to aggression existed, but the will to use it did not. Unless that situation is changed the new outlook will be as hopeless as the old. Fortu- nately there is reason to believe it is changed. The present temper at any rate of the peoples of the Allied Nations calls for action, united and effective, when action may be needed. For that general resolve to be maintained relations between the Allied Nations, and