The Chinese appeal to the League is discussed in an editorial article in the Osservatore Romano. According to the article the objects of this appeal are two-fold: first, to obtain some kind of intervention in their favour by the United States, and secondly, to obtain the application of Articles 10, 11, and 17, of the Covenant, As to the first object, the writer of the article believes that sooner or later Washington will have to take up some positive attitude towards the Far Eastern question despite the neutrality policy of the present administration, and the fact that American economic interests in Asia are much smaller than those of England. The political, not economic, problem of the equilibrium of forces in the Pacific cannot fail to affect America sooner or later.
The article concludes by saying that., after their recent experience of sanctions against Italy, the League is not likely to carry out such a policy against Japan, and that the only result of China's appeal—for the time being at any rate—will be to help to create an atmosphere of sympathy towards the Chinese defence.