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Show Japan's Success Temporary The fact that the nation's of the jvorld have been unable to secure ;he evacuation of the Japanese troops from Manchuria is not necessarily nec-essarily the failure of present peace machinery to function in the interest of the world at large. That Japan is moving along certain cer-tain well-defined plans and that she has selected an opportune time to push forward cannot be doubted. Neither can one expect successful opposition to her armies from the Chinese Government, nor is there any likelyhood that an in ternational coalition will show such a strength as to compel Japan to abandon her present venture. At, the same time, it is easy to believe that the interest manifested in the present situation in the Far East, coupled, with the attitude of the majority powers of the world, will serve as a warning to the Japanese, Jap-anese, telling them that regardless of what their army may accomplish accom-plish in Manchuria, the world at large will not recognize any rights based itpch the present use of strength to coerce a helpless people While Japan may accompUsh a degree of temporary success, the combined force of world opinion will, in the end, check-mate her strategy and sooner or later force her to abondon ill-gotten gains. |