He expressed. the profoundest sympathy "for the magnificent defence and noble self-sacrifice with which the Chinese are standing up to the invaders."
The League of Nations, Viscount Cecil declared, had pronounced China right and Japan wrong, and the duty of members of the League, therefore, was quite clear.
Military intervention, he asserted, was obviously out of the question. but he urged two possible courses.
stay, he stated, "we should organize ourselves to refuse to buy any article of Japanese production, and then we should urge the Government to give financial assistance to China."
Viscount Cecil asked whether "it should be said of us in this country that, in our joy at obtaining peace for ourselves, we are forgetting those in China who are fighting so just a battle for their own peace."
He said he refused to believe that "our country would accept so miserable a position."
Other speakers were Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Mr. Peter Fleming the well-known writer, who graphically described what he had seen of the war in China, and Miss Rose Tou, a Chinese girl who has been working on medical relief behind the Chinese lines and has just arrived in England.
She movingly described—the heroism ofthe Chinese soldiers and the terrible sufferings of Chinese refugees, and earnestly appealed for help for the Chinese—Reuter.
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