Manchuria : the Issue Faced
As the League of Nations Assembly's Committee of Nineteen has been sitting in private, the various schools of opinion- can only be tentatively distinguished on the 'basis-of the messages of Press' correspondents. What is clear and definite is that the protracted attempts at conciliation have broken down completely on the tesolute refusal. of. Japan to- accept the „findings of the Lytton Commission. The League is thus faced with an
issue which, despite the unrivalled capacity of some of the leading participants in the discussions for evasion, can no longer be evaded. But there arc still two distinct ideas as to the course to be taken. The majority of the Committee, but a majority consisting mainly of smaller States, is for a policy which may be described as the Lytton Report, the whole Report and (for the moment) nothing but the Report—though it is obvious that to accept the Lytton Commission's findings may involve ultimately some further consequential action. The British Government, on the other hand, anxious to avoid any step which may involve open censure of Japan, appears to be in favour of a resolution consisting only of a record of events. * * • *
