Show national af affairs f airs by FRANK P according to press dispatches irom from I 1 europe on december japan and china accepted the league of nations resolution on the dispute in manchuria even the most ardent friends ol of the lea gue however will hardly claim that the league has come out of the dispute with any great credit to itself the acceptance of the resolution was made by both coun tries with important reservations so lar far as japan Is concerned its reservation Is i important enough to extract any teeth from the resolution which the resolution might originally have possessed in short the Japan sese reserved the right to take measures against bandits in manchuria As this Is exactly what japan has claimed to be doing all the time it Is difficult to see wherein the resolution alters the situation the tact fact is that japan has won a complete victory in the manchuria dispute taking advantage ot of world condition the fact act that the great powers ot of the world were engaged in their own troubles and taking further advantage of f the impotency ol of the league japan started her manchurian Manc hurlan adventure with every prospect ot of success and this success has not been denied advancing tor for the stated purpose ot of protecting japanese rights in manchuria the japanese army occupied every strategic point of any consequence in the province until this was done all appeals from the various powers were made in vain alter after japan had achieved her objective naturally the japanese were willing to listen to compromise just as the small na 11 boy Is always willing to compromise peorl atter after he has eaten all the jam in the pantry and so japanese agreed to a cessation or of hostility and the withdrawal of japanese troops as quickly as possible whatever that means but the japs attached the reservation which gives them the right to go bandit hunting which Is id exactly what they have been doing according to their own claims and so long as there are bandits to hunt it will be impossible to withdraw the troops quickly or otherwise indeed it would seem to the impartial observer that the japanese troops are apt to occupy strategic and controlling points in manchuria lor for some time to come the result of this japanese adventure in china has seriously interfered W with it the prestige of the league and its future effectiveness all threats of the league were powerless to check the japanese until the japanese objective was achieved the adherents of the league cannot excuse its ineffectiveness by claiming that things would have been different bad america been in the league for the united states as an independent power cooperated with the league without avail so eo tar far as any evident influence on the japanese was concerned the league fiasco in connection with the japanese adventure in manchuria will ill furnish opponents of the world court in tho the united states senate with ith an additional reason for opposing american adherer bereece ce to the court they will argue that it if the league Is ineffective against one cue asiatic power when all of the nations ar ere unanimous in seeking ng to checkmate that that power how much greater would the Ineffective ineffectiveness nes and confusion be it if the league were esseling seeking to coerce some european power which had friends inside and outside the league the anwer answer a to this one is 3 of course obvious por a time there was talk of some sort of ft a boyc boycott a tt against japan financial or otherwise but this fell by the wayside too and every american breathed a sigh of relief when this happened because it Is generally conceded that we have enough troubles of our own without trying to take on any new ones in the orient the vote of the world court on the austro germani customs treaty and the leagues failure to do more mol e than apparently save its face in the man chu charlan riall situation are going to make the going even a little rougher for the internationalists ter in america during the coming year r anmie actors in have had their salary tilt clit glifty per cent in the case of some conle of 0 them an additional flit cut of 71 70 per cent bould put lem cm about right E |