"China is beginning to regard this attitude as, at least, unfriendly.
"I venture to believe that, if the Chinese were successful in this war, from all I have heard, they would be just as upsetting to British trade as the Japanese are being at present.
"I wish to urge that something must be done to help China in her real trouble."
Lord Elibank referred to the Anglo. American Trade Agreem®nt, and said that many could see behind the Agreement the question of closer collaboration between the two nations.
He suggested that a special occasion had arisen where those two countries should collaborate in this matter. He concluded by urging the Government to take some action "in this awful case, the vital importance of which does not seem to be fully recognized in every direction," and to take retaliatory action before it was too late.
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