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5) That League of Nations members sign a special pact, pledging themselves to take the punitive action against an aggressor envisioned in Article XVI of the League Covenant.
"The League is on trial," said President de Valera. "There is a suspicion abroad that little more than lip service is being paid to the fundamental principles upon which the League was founded. There is a suspicion that the action of the League in the economic sphere can be paralyzed...
Distinctly Simonesque, thoroughly typical of the Great Lawyer's special pleading in many a criminal case, were the Times's persuasive periods: ". . . On the whole, the policy of Japan has unquestionably been conducted without too nice regard for the obligations which she assumed when she signed the Covenant of the...
Meanwhile in Manchester the famed Guardian flamed: "Subterfuges apart. Japan has torn a piece out of the living body of China. She has done this by violence which she refused to call war. although it was a war. breaking thereby the treaties which both she and China had signed, the...
"There are those in other countries who do not fully comprehend the attitude of Japan toward China nor the measures she has taken. . . . Although Japan has been the chief victim of the abnormal state of affairs in China, other countries have also suffered intolerable indignities. At the same time it...