The Lytton Proposals New complications in regard to the Lytton
Report have arisen in the discovery by Feng Yu-hsiang, the so-called Christian General, that the report is inimical to China and must be resisted. There is probably more domestic politics than anything else in this, but Chinese dislike of the report might be expected to do something to commend it to Japan. On a later page a well-known Japanese Liberal explains the situation as it presents itself to Japanese moderates. Much that he says will inspire sympathy, though not all of it assent. There, will be a general disposition at Geneva to display all reasonable patience with Japan, but none, it may be hoped, to weaken on the vital principles on which the organization of the post-War world is based. And the possibility has always to be faced that delays calculated to ease negotiations with Japan might evoke a dangerous and quite intelligible exasperation in China,
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