(Continued from page 5) self with any other schemes to help the Chinese people in that particular department in their terrible plight.
Sir Stafford Cripps, intervening, asked if that meant the granting of a loan, Mr, Butler replied that Sir Stafford Cripps knew that the Government had already made an announcement about a loan, and he was unable to adi anything more about an international loan.
"We have also," he continued, "offered our services, either alone or in conjunction with any other Powers cz group of Powers, to take whatever steps possible to bring about a just and lasting solution of the present conflict, "We have given, and shall continue to give, sympathetic consideration. to Any scheme which may be put forward on a commercial basis following upon our recent support of resolutions on this subject at the League."
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