THE LEAGUE: Sanction Step

Unnoticed amid frenzied Europe, the League Council this week finally agreed to take the first of many technical steps which would be necessary to invoke "Sanctions" against Japan, no longer a League member. The step: inviting Japan to take a seat at the Council table. Geneva experts said that, if Japan sends a refusal, more drastic steps could then be taken, but that if Japan simply never sends a reply, this would create a puzzling situation which the Council would then attempt to solve. Afraid Czechoslovakia would ask the Council to take the first Sanctions step toward Germany this...

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