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Show The Kansas City Times says: "Controversy over responsibility re-sponsibility for the Shantung settlement may add to the general confusion' but does not obscure the main fact that Japan received this territory of a neighbor as a price for her adhesion to the league of nations. The argument at Paris was that if Japan stayed out she would be a danger to the league and might go eleswhere for her price.. Here we have an interesting light on the great moral considerations consid-erations that have been the principal arguments advanced advanc-ed in favor of the league covenant. If the league begins business on the foundation of this settlement it starts on a capital illegality and immorally acquired, and invites in-vites and would deserve the fate of any enterprise so financed. fi-nanced. We were told the league was to substitute, the rule of right for might that it was to protect the weak against the strong and be the impartial and justice' serving serv-ing arbiter before which no oppresser or despoiler would dare to maintain a questionable cause. But what do these pretentions amount to now? The league itself is, to be established by the very methods it denounces in individual nations and the employment of which by the strong again f st the helpless constitutes the reason assigned for the necessity of the covenant. Starting out to abol'sh wrong in international dealings the league raises itself to the necessary moral plane by an act of wrong doing as inde-' fensible as any its advocates, have condemned in others." |