The Archive · 1939

New Change in Situation

Various aspects of this problem had lately been under expert review London, with a view to providing the Government with requisite data on which (0 base its decisions.

Proposals for a loan to China were nuler consideration by the Cabinet Fast, July, the correspondent ce! cludes, but they were rejected then the belief that. there was me sulelentjustifeation for a step Which might be regarded by Japan unfriendly at a moment when a major crisis in Europe was obviously developing. The amount, of these fered its,. the correspondent recall wa £ 20,000,000, The {act that the British Government is now preparing positive measures in the Far East, the correspon out adds, following on the granting fof the $25,000,000 veredits. to China by the United States last December, reflects "the more confident spirit of the British Government in facing up war problems which still beset the world."

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