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Show and with the League of Nations supinely su-pinely sitting by while invading armies arm-ies are in motion, the testing of the world peace by international , agreement agree-ment is at hand. A TESTING TIME FOR PEACE TREATIES. General treaties for peace ai-e of no account so long as there are nations na-tions which, while entering into sol emn obl'jratior.s under them, claim ' ' ' and assert the right to repudiate these treaties whenever such repudiation repudia-tion suits their interests. Indeed such 'treaties under these circumstances become a menace to well intentioned nations, and a weapon in the hands of nations which rely upon force to 'mpose their will upon weaker neighbors. neigh-bors. ; A case in point is the cynical disregard disre-gard of obligations under the Kellogg treaty by Russia. Russia as well as China is a signatory of this pact China has repeatedly appealed for in-ternation in-ternation arbitration of these differences. differ-ences. In the beginning the Russian Toveinment publicly announced that it had no intention of going to war For commercial purposes in Manchuria. Manchur-ia. Under cover of this assurance to ""he world the Moscow masters entered enter-ed upon a program of purchasing and itherwise securing rebellion by military mili-tary generals within China. While hi'S throwing China into turmoi1 Russia began massing troops and sup -Tes on the Mpnchurian border, anr1 r-hen fully prepared began an inva-'.on inva-'.on which is now in full swing, with '-sp.vy loss of life. The war in Manchuria is due tr Russia's cynical disregard of a prior "rcaty. The agreement between Rus sia and China for Russian control of railroad over Chinese territory ob 'igated each nation to desist from Propaganda against the other. The "Chinese government discovered, an has asked the powers for opportunity fo display the proofs, that the Chinese Eastern Railroad was being used as a base for Red revolution in China The correspondence discovered in the Harbin raid even showed that the chiof officials of the Nanking gov ernnvent were marked for assasinatior ;n a conspiracy to seize control of the Chinese government. In other words Russia was guilty of gross violation of a treaty involving the fundamental fundamen-tal right of China to protect itself from destruction. No self-respecting nation could have tolerated this. The people of the western world have a very vital interest in these treaty violations of Russia. Should Moscow's plan of seizing control of China succeed, the menace of Bolshevism Bolshev-ism will be brought the the whole eastern edge of the Pacific ocean toward to-ward which our western coast faces. Japan is conscious of a widespread revolutionary movement engineered by bolshevists in that country and has recently made wholesale arrests of revolutionaries acting under Moscow-direction. Moscow-direction. Should the Russian conquest of China suceed, the Japanese empire em-pire will be in immediate danger. For this reason Japan is taking an interest inter-est in Manchurian events, and it is possible may yet take a hand which will, precipitate a general wrr in th? Orient. It 13 a rather remarkable fact thst American "liberals" who wer cryin-"Hands cryin-"Hands off China" when the United States and other western powers were protecting their nations asrainst Re'1 attacks in China, are silent now tha4 Russia has torn the Kellogg pact to pieces and has armies in motion with view to the crushing of the Nationalist Nation-alist government. It evidently depends - ith them as to whether it is the Red ox or; some other ox that is being ored. Those pacifist or2n'z"t;on-;n or2n'z"t;on-;n the United States with ill concealed conceal-ed sympathies with Soviet Russia, have nothing to say about Russia's ruthless disregard of the Kellogg peace treaty, which these same pacifist paci-fist , ardently espoused. 'Does the League of Nations mean anything in the restraint of militarism? militar-ism? Does the Kellogg treaty mean anything in the prevention of war? With one signatory to the treaty spitting spit-ting upon it an another signatory appealing in vain to other signatories to stop this violation of the treaty, |