Prestige of League.

How will the League of Nations come through the greatest crisis in its career? At time of writing it would seem that the League has succeeded in stopping—pending inquiry—the undeclared war that has been going on between Japanese and Chinese armies in Manchuria, but the situation remains dangerous. There are difficult questions to answer, such as: who is right, and what is the penalty when a nation intervenes with armed force because its nationals may have lacked protection under another Government? There would seem to be no such charge against China that could not be brought with double force against Russia. But China has vulnerable provinces, an immigration prize. Russia's attitude to these Manchurian events remains obscure. Though the League was flouted in the East, Britain and France have asked it to adjudicate on the Irak-Syrian frontier.