I learned of this decision the same evening.

The memorandum which I made the next morning in regard to the matter is as follows: "China has been abandoned to Japanese rapacity.

A democratic territory has been given over to an autocratic government.

The President has conceded to Japan all that, if not more than, she ever hoped to obtain.

This is the information contained in a memorandum handed by Ray Stannard Baker under the President's direction to the Chinese delegation last evening, a copy of which reached me through Mr .-- -- [of the Chinese delegation].
"Mr .-- -- also said that Mr.Baker stated that the President desired him to say that the President was very sorry that he had not been able to do more for China but that he had been compelled to accede to Japan's demand 'in order _to save the League of Nations._' "The memorandum was most depressing.