ABSTRACT
Britain’s Dilemma For China the adjournment of the Brussels Conference meant the renewal of intensified diplomatic efforts aimed at urging each of the Powers individually to extend assistance to her. China’s stocks of ammunition seemed to be on the verge of exhaustion and the situation was likely to grow desperate if her military needs were not supplied outright.1 There seemed a real possibility that China would relapse into a provincial warlord system, and that anarchy would prevail. Could Britain give a hand to the country whose sovereignty and integrity she had pledged to respect? Could she extend aid to a nation on whose territory British interests and properties flourished?
