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ect, barring shipments of strate- gic raw materials to both sides, Japan as well as China would have suffered inconvenience, since Japan has been a substan- tial buyer of American cotton, [oil, scrap iron and other wartime

economic necessities.

However, heither country would have suffered any over- whelming disadvantage from the promulgation of the Act, since each could have obtained what it Mr. Cordell Hull's sharp re-needed elsewhere. It is also minder to the Japanese Govern-doubtful whether the invocation ment of certain assurances given of the Neutrality Act would have that Japanese military aggres-javerted the most serious incident sion in China would be conducted which aroused American emo- with respect for the rights of tional feeling, the sinking of the third Powers, is indicative of the gunboat “Panay” and of the car- gradual change in attitude which go vessels which it was convoy- latterly has been most marked as ing.

FIRMING UP

regards both British and Ameri- The main net result of putting can policy in the Far East dis- the Neutrality Act in force would pute. It is a change which is be to divert a certain amount of [nothing_if not encouraging. The war purchases from America to recent Tungwo Incident and Ad-jother countries. It probably would miral Sir Percy Noble's visit to not, under the circumstances, be Nanking, studying the strength an overwhelming handicap to of the Japanese claim that the either warring power and it Yangtsze is dangerous for other would certainly not be an infal- than Japanese shipping, reveal lible means of keeping America the stiffening of Britain's posi-out of trouble. tion. Of special significance in the Tungwo Incident was the Island Ignorance

the

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fact that H.M.S. Cricket was made ready to proceed down- stream with order to take

In the House of Lords recent- Tungwo out of the custody of the happy laughter Lord Ponsonby's ly their lordships saluted with Japanese military. What might sally, "There is not one person in have happened had the necessity arisen, no-one can conjecture, but Czecho-Slovakia is,"

a hundred who knows where the important fact is that when the percentage must be a little but surely the Japanese authorities realised higher than that in the House of that Britain meant business, they Lords itself? Or was did not tempt the process

it only. events by the hard test of exper- in the street" whose geographical that mythical creature "the mant ience.-

of

deficiencies were being statisti- The United States, judging cally exposed, so that their lord- from Mr. Cordell Hull's Note, is ships' loftier withers would in in much the same mood, and it is any event remain unwrung? But interesting to observe that it fol- it may be doubted whether the lows a revival of discussion in proposition was entirely justified. America about the application of Britons may be an insular and ob- the Neutrality Act to the Sino-stinate race, but it would be hard Japanese War-obviously a war, by this time not to have derived if undeclared. Isolationists of the at least a vague impression that stricter school continue to urge Czecho-Slovakia is not, for in- the application of the Act. Sym-stance, a part of the United pathizers with China continue to States or situated in Equatorial [contend that its provisions would Africa.

favour Japan, the aggressor, It is possible, perhaps, to over- against China, the victim of ag-do the assumption that the plain, gression. The State Department's straightforward Englishman has. reply to the Scott resolution re-no interests outside winners of questing names of treaty-viola- the Derby or Grand National, and [tors listed Japan as one of them the position of his home county and has encouraged public opin-in the league tables. Certainly ion to demand that no further some of the newspapers that cat- aid be given to Japan.

er for him do their best from However, a cool survey of the time to time to create an impres- probable consequences of apply-ion that such are the limits of ing the Act would seem to indi- tis interests and intelligence, but cate that it would neither appre-even papers of that kind have ciably affect the course of the ately gone out of their way to Sino-Japanese struggle nor les-put. Czecho-Slovakia on his men- sen very much the risk of Ameri- tal map. They may have failed can involvement. The Neutral-n that endeavour, but one has a ity Act was drafted with the les- feeling that most people have by sons of the World War in mind. this time a rough idea of where And the Sino-Japanese conflict is Czecho-Slovakia is. But perhaps différent in almost every respect the mass-observation experts from the World War.

would like to conduct an inquiry In the first place, both Japan into this problem and find out and China are fighting the war whether their researches tally on a shoestring. Neither pos-with Lord Ponsonby's rather sesses either sufficient resources sweeping percentage of block- to build up a huge war trade in heads.