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This week the League Assembly of 57 states, summoned by its Belgian President Paul Hymans, was to act on the Report in extraordinary session, putting forth what Geneva statesmen called the most powerful and concerted effort to obtain peace ever made...
...Tokyo the abrupt Geneva volte-face put fear into Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, who was most earnestly counseled by the Last of the Genro ("Elder Statesmen") Prince Saionji not to break with the League "until every possibility of compromise has been exhausted." The Count flashed fresh instructions to Japan's Geneva Delegation. Soon with a face all crinkling smiles Delegate Matsuoka announced that Japan accepts the League's Lytton Report as a basis for conciliation, merely stipulating that the League shall "take into consideration actual conditions in Manchuria since the conclusion of the Lytton Report...
Fair enough? Geneva's statesmen did not think so. Since the Lytton Report was drafted, they pointed out, Japan has recognized Manchukuo, has seized Shanhaikwan south of the Great Wall, has occupied parts of Jehol and launched a campaign to occupy the rest. If all those "circumstances" were to be considered by the League another Lytton Report would have to be made, and by the time it was finished there would be fresh "circumstances." Angrily the Committee of Nineteen proceeded to pop a big, blunt question back at the Japanese Government, would they or would they not agree...
...lieutenants, was promised the Foreign Ministry months ago when Handsome Adolf dreamed of an all-Nazi Cabinet. If he could not be Foreign Minister last week Herr Göring determined to act like one. When the Swedish Gothenburg Handelsoch Sjöfartstidning declared: "It is incomprehensible that the statesmen and Press of the world should be compelled to occupy themselves with this figure. Hitler is an insult." Fiery Hermann Göring promptly telegraphed the editor: "As a true friend of the Swedish people I see in such dirty expressions a serious danger to the friendly relations between...
Concomitant with these disturbances has been a period of tragically futile talk by the League of Nations, and a fantastically mounting burden of armaments for all nations. With painful irony new battleships slip off the ways while statesmen meet to discuss and disagree on navy reductions. What hope for peace while a revengeful Germany, a belligerent Italy, a suspicious France, an aggressive Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude...