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and even supplied the aggressor with the raw materials with which these inhuman attacks were made possible. Today statistics indicate that fifty million Chinese are destitute and in need of our financial and material support. This alone should appeal to the sympathetic understanding of the  democratic countries throughout the world. The other aspect has to do with our own national security.  In a modern war prosecuted with the mighty air fleets of the warring nations there are no dividing lines such as continents or [[crossed out]] and [[/crossed out]] even hemispheres. Britain's vital concern is to maintain the [[crossed out]] c [[/crossed out]] sourse [[source]] of her oil supply in Iran and Iraq and to give Russia the support to which she is entitled so that the German aggressor shall not seize the oil of Southern Russia. This has been made possible only by the gallant and  determined sacrifices of the Chinese  people who have carried on this lop-sided war and whose efforts have kept at bay the forces that would otherwise be free in the Pacific thereby cutting off from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the East Indies the flow of vital supplies to the British forces on the Nile. Therefore, quite apart from the humanitarian aspect of this serious problem is the great debt we owe to the Chinese whose indomitable courage has earned for them the respect of all other free nations. Irrespective of the demands now being made upon our people at a time when half our national income is being used for war purposes, this appeal should commend itself to all whose desire it is to perpetuate freedom on this earth. A similar appeal is being made simultaneously in the United States under the United China War Relief, headed by its national chariman [[chairman]], James G. Blane, where the objective is fixed at five million dollars. And here too we should not be unmindful of the fact that the President of the            

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