The Archive · 1938

Air Defence Loan To China Urged

British Labour Organ Makes Suggestion French Appeal

London, June 9, Declaring that civilized people are "horrified by the bestial bombing of unarmed civilians at Canton," the "Daily Herald," the Labour organ, in a leader today, says that diplomatic protests alone are useless, The men and women of Great Britain, it suggests, should demand that the British Government show condemnation of Japan by a guaranteed loan to China, Such a loan, it contends, would provide the Chinese with funds to buy the necessary material to defend their cities against. air attacks, "Plans for such a loan," the "Daily Herald" goes on, "already exist, They are at this moment under consideration by the Foreign Office and the Treasury, There must be no further delay, Public opinion must force the Government to sanction it immediately."

"The men and women of Great Britain," the "Daily Herald" adds, "can also play a direct part in in-fencing Japan by an intensification of the boycott against Japanese goods,"—Reuter,

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