Guns in Asia.

World events in March revolve round three main storm centres-financial crisis in America, political crisis in Europe, and war in Asia. America has its man of the moment, Roosevelt; Europe also has its man, Hitler; but Asia has thrown to the fore no dominant personality, unless he be known to the protagonists alone. While Roosevelt thunders against the money kings, and Hitler against Communism and the Treaty of Versailles, the Japanese let their guns do the thundering, and seize province after province. Nothing has yet occurred to demonstrate that the moral force of the League of Nations is effective against them. The League, of course, has not been fashioned as a physical weapon, and its physical ineffectiveness therefore comes as no sudden shock. Nor will many people be surprised at the collapse of Chinese forces beyond the Great Wall. All the same, the blow that international co-operation has received in Asia may encourage a German blow at international law in Europe—or at any rate at the Versailles Treaty, with incalculable results.