China and Japan

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 91, 12 January 1932, Page 9

China and Japan

Sir, —The newspaper controversy between Mr. Ivan Levy and myself has been ended, not by the arguments' of either of us, but by the powerful march of international events. The United States has moved to protect the NinePower Treaty. As I stated in my letter of December 21, the letter that Mr. Levy thought was based on a “fantastic hypothesis” and founded on a “fatuous fear complex,” Japan would find her attempts to abrogate the Nine Power Treaty met with determined opposition by. U.S.A, and England. The stands taken by Mr. Levy and I in this discussion are clearly defined. Mr. Levy thinks that Japan is within her rights in her military intervention in Manchuria. I think that such intervention is a breach of both the Nine Power Treaty and Article 12 of the Covenant of the League. Mr. Levy sees no danger of Japan obtaining a territorial footing on the main continent. I see a grave danger of a Continental Japanese Empire unless the major Powers oppose her and force her to observe the treaties she has signed. The danger is over. The United States has intervened. The hypothetical future discussed by Mr. Levy and me has become the actual present, and Japan finds herself forced to observe the Chinese territorial sovereignty of Manchuria that she treated for in the Nine Power Pact.—l am, etc., , AWAKENED. January 9.