Proponents of the loan to China. including Senators Alben W. Barkley. of Kentucky, Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan, William H. King of Utah, and Sherman Minton of Indiana, all Democrats, repeatedly emphasized that Americans want to help China as well as Finland.
Senator Barkley said the loans to China could not plunge the United States into war. He said they are commercial loans facilitating United States exports, at the same time expressing United States sentiment regarding invasion, Senator King declared that the cost of the loan to Finland would be far exceeded by the consequences of a Russian success in gaining control of the Scandinavian countries, Senator Barkley defended President Roosevelt's refusal to invoke the Neutrality Act in the Far East and Finland. The United States would be forced 1o abandon, the rights of United States shipping and other trade would be affected, he declared.—United Press,
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