OPINION IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 7

OPINION IN BRITAIN

NOT THE ONLY TROUBLE

PROBLEMS ALL ROUND

LONDON, 21st November,

The newspapers emphasise that not since the fateful days of July, 1914, has j the world faced a week of such ' momentous gravity in international affairs. President Hoover is meeting Mr. P. D. Roosevelt, the President-elect, at Washington to discuss the war debt problem, while the League of Nations at Geneva is confrouted- with the necessity of making a decision on the Lytton Commission's report, on which depends not only the peace of the Far East, but the future of the League itself, as the possibility of Japan's withdrawal cannot be ignored. The internal political crisis in Germany, the tliird Bound Table Conference on India, and the problems of taxation^ and unemployment, which the British Parliament must face arc only less momentous.

Geneva telegrams state that gloom lias descended on Geneva in view of Japan's attitude- and a Chinese threat to invoke the League's boycott clause against Japan if China is not' "granted justice." -

The "Morning Post" says that an impartial reading of the Japanese reply to the Lytton report "makes it evident that Japan is legally and morally on stronger ground that the critics are willing to admit."

The "DaUy Herald" says: "It would bo hard to imagine more definite defiance of the League than Japan's reply, which categorically denies the right 6f the Council and Assembly even to discuss her actions. The issue has widened beyond the Sino-Japanese dispute. The whole future of the League and its peace machinery is at stake."