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Show The Jap Situation Japan has very successfully conquered con-quered Jehol and adds another military victory over the Improperly Improper-ly trained and disorganized Chinese Chi-nese Yet, in her moment of victory, vic-tory, she faces a greater International Interna-tional isolation than any other country has probably ever confronted. con-fronted. The militarists of Japan have started the nation on a course which will most certainly lead to inevitable disaster. Writing from Geneva, Robert Dell points out in the Baltimore Sun: "The consequences of givinig Japan Ja-pan a free hand in Asia are Incalculable, Incal-culable, but they may not ultimately ulti-mately be satisfactory to Japan herself, for she is like the frog in the fable trying to expand itself into a bull, and the result Is likely to be similar. "Japan Is trying to play the part of a great Power without the necessary resources. With a population popu-lation of about 65,000,000 and an area two-thirds as large again as that of Great Britain, she has extremely ex-tremely small natural resources and a national revenue about 25 per cent larger than that of Switzerland, Swit-zerland, which has a population of 4,000,000 and an area half the size of Ireland. "How can J,apan, with a revenue of about $270,000,000 at the present rate of exchange and a falling currency, cur-rency, go on Indefinitely spending about $220,000,000 on her Army and Nf vy? "How can ohe l:ope to imitate successfully the imperialist exploits of wealthy countries like England and France? ' She seerp 5 bound to come to some grief sooner or later, but, lief'jre that happens she may !W2 ti'inr great mischief to the rest of the world whicn could have ben av(?ced had the CouncU of the League of Nations taken a firm stand In September, 1931." |
