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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 11

Tho Council of the League will discuss the Report some time in. November. It must, of course, be emphasised that -the Commission is purely a Loaguo of Nations body, and that its views do not implieato the individual countries represented on it. CKXJX 'OF THE QUESTION. "This plan, obviously," comments the "Morning Post," "is intended to supersede the; Statd of Manehukuo, which, from the point of view of the Commission, has the decisive disadvantage that it is not based on the recog--nition of the sovereignty of China. The ex-Emperor Pu-Yi would doubtless retort that ho has a much stronger historical claim to, Manchuria than the Chinese Republic,' since the territory belonged, time out of mind, to his dynasty, and only became Chinese by virtue of tho fact that the Manchus became Emperors of China, - "As for the wishes of the Chinese population of the three provinces, the Lytton Commission appears to be confident that they favour China. We confess to some modest doubts on that subject, since many of these Chinese emigrants fled to the North of the Great Wall in order to escape from the anarchy now reigning in China. Here, as it seems to us, we come to- the crux of the question. The Commission" admits, that a strong central government in China is essential to its scheme, and that such a Government does not at present exist. It asserts, rather optimistically, that China is.a 'nation in evolution,' and that her 'political upheavals, social disorder, ana disruptive tendencies' are 'inseparable from a period of transition.' But how can-we be certain either of tho 'evolution' or of the 'transition 1? China was united by the Manchus as India- was united by the British, and may be, now that the Manchu Empire has gone, in a process, not'of evolution, but of dissolution." .