The League and Japan
The between tween the League of Nations and Japan is not diminishing, and Tokyo talk, in which the Minister for War, Generale Araki, has figured conspicuously, regarding the possible withdrawal of Japan from the League, may-have.. to be taken -seriously. At Shanghai fighting has stopped, but no formal truce has yek been concluded, and the Japanese are apparently refusing to withdraw their troops to the International Settlement and its outskirts as has throughout been contemplated. The real problem, however, concerns Manchuria and the flat refusal" of Japan to tolerate League intervention, except in the form of conciliation, :there. As to the juridical position there can be no room for argument. When China brought her conflict with Japan before the Council under Article XV of the Covenant her delegate expressly declared that he was including in his appeal both Manchuria and Shanghai, and when the dispute was transferred to the Assembly not one part of it, but both, came before the larger body. There can be no doubt or misunderstanding about that. The Assembly resolu- tion of March 7th, indeed, expressly reaffirmed the Coun- cil's resolution of December 10th, adopted long before Shanghai had come into the picture at all. The League has the Manchurian issue before it, and cannot drop it.
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