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III. Recommendations by the Delegation as to the
disposal of the funds under the control of the Universities
China Committee.
In section II of this Report we gave priority to
the second of our terms of reference because of the primary and
fundamental importance of the questions which we wwww considered it
necessary to raise under that head. In discussing those questions
we drew attention to what we believe to be the unfortunate results
of what seems to have been a change of policy on the part of His
Majesty's Government, culminating in the Exchange of Notes of Sep-
tember 1930 and in the China Indemnity (Application) Act of 1931.
We have had to face the possibility that the Boeard of Trustees will
find itself powerless, even if it has the will, to give effect to
Dr C.T.Wang's undertaking that the funds would be dealt with in
harmony with the general views set forth in the Reports of Lord
Buxton's Advisory Committee and of Lord Willingdon's Delegation in
BEBES 1926. WE In carrying out the instructions contained in the
first of our terms of reference and in framing our recommendations
concerning the utilisation of the comparatively small sum at the dis-
posal of the Universities China Committee, we have borne in mind the
fact that we are directed to consider "the most effective way of
carrying out the purposes" of the Committee, but we have found our-
selves unable to base our proposals, as we had hoped to do, on the
confident assumption that the activities of the Committee would be
merely supplementary to those in which the Board of Trustees would
engage with much greater resources and on a much larger scale.
recommendations which follow may therefore be regarded as independent,
of anything which the Board of Trustees may do or may leave undone.
Their adoption will, indeed, go but a very little way towards reali-
zing the ambitious hopes expressed in the Willingdon Report; never-
theless they are in harmony with the spirit of that Report, and
should fit into any more comprehensive scheme that may hereafter be
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