But she would not have gone.
She would have submitted.

She has attained a high place in world councils.

Her astute statesmen would never have abandoned her present exalted position even for the sake of Kiao-Chau.

The whole affair assumes a sordid and sinister character, in which the President, acting undoubtedly with the best of motives, became the cat's-paw.
"I have no doubt that the President fully believed that the League of Nations was in jeopardy and that to save it he was compelled to subordinate every other consideration.

The result was that China was offered up as a sacrifice to propitiate the threatening Moloch of Japan.