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involved (which are very considerable).
(d) Factors (b) and (c) do not mean they have to be rich, but do mean that a reasonable income and a measure of freedom from other commitments is needed. To pay Unofficial Members might achieve (c), but would by no means assist with (b) - it would tend in this cynical community to make people doubt if they were disinterested.
(e) They must be able to understand reasonably well what is put before them in Council and almost more important - in the many Committees on which they sit. This means, inter alia, a fair knowledge of written and spoken English: much can be translated for them but legislation (their primary interest) is untranslatable.
(f) They must not be mere front-men for a special interest, but capable of with- standing a great variety of pressures, in- cluding pressure from those whose opinions they cannot conscientiously endorse. A degree of ingrained point of view is, of course, some- thing everyone has; and this must be accepted; but we cannot appoint people wholly manipulated from the rear. One particular aspect of this is that they must not of course be of a type in the least likely to bring the Communist/ Taiwan ideologies into the affairs of the Council.
(g) They must be British subjects. To appoint people with no inherent duty of loyalty would be a dangerous precedent.
Next, I think we must be clear what kind of Council we want. Do we want one which is factious, tendentious, obstructive and self-advertising; or one
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