way of getting an amending bill through Parliament
this session and he quite understood. He said that
on the Chinese side there was also the difficulty of
getting a mandate for making the appointments as pro-
posed in the committee's report issued at the present
time which the Nationalist government would accept.
He suggested that to tide over the present impasse and
in order to show the world we had no intention of al-
lowing our promises in regard to the Boxer indemnity to
become a dead letter we should ask advisory committee
to appoint a provisional committee in China who would
draw up draft regulations for the board, receive re-
ports and applications,etc., and in fact do everything
but deal with the funds. The members of this commd ttee
would automatically constitute the board when established
in due course later on. he said that C.C.Wang and
V.K.Ting were in favour of this committee.
This seems a good idea and I trust that it may
meet with your approval. If so, I should like to have
authority to approach the persons, both British and
Chinese named on my list, with a view to recommending
their names to the advisory committee. Would there be any objection to enlarging the board, if necessary, to thirteen or fourteen?
Yen suggested, and I concur, that before this committee is appointed I should informally (?gr.omit.) W.Koo and Chen of our intentions and endeavour to secure their co-operation.
We are very fortunate in securing Yen's collabora- tion: We could not have a better man and he is evident- ly prepared to take keen interest in the scheme. I hope you will be able to persuade the advisory committee to adopt his suggestion.
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