buffnut453
Captain
I'll be interested to see that. I would suspect that this was mostly in the second half of 1941 after Lend-Lease was passed, when the US FDR taking the lead against Japanese aggression.
I certainly can't see them extending much help from July - Oct 1940 after they've shut down the Burma road.
Nor will financial help do much good at the beginning of 1941, without the ability to buy US armaments.
Freebird,
British financial contributions to China are discussed in a 1991 essay by Philip Richardson '"Plucking the China Brand from the Burning": Britain's Economic Assistance to China and Sir Otto Niemeyer's Mission, 1941-42', China Quarterly No. 125, pp. 86-108. I made a mistake in my original statement - British financial aid outstripped all others, including the US, through the end of 1940. One addition, however, was that the UK-based loans were made on far more favourable terms than those of the US.
KR
Mark