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Paras. 8, 9, 10, 11.
This is the only one of Sir C.
Clementi's criticisms in which there is real force, viz.
that the 'Government of China' is to appoint the Board of
Trustees; whereas that Government is practically non-exist-
ent. The Chinese members, however, assert (and the experi-
ence of Lord Willingdon's Delegation confirmed this view)
that education, etc., is so outside the sphere of contending
politics, that a mandate issued by the Peking Government aḥ- pointing the Board of Trustees would (if it contained suit- able and non-political names) be accepted throughout China.
But the best answer to Sir C. Clementi's diatribes is tho
fact that His Majesty's Minister at Peking is anxious to get
the Amending Bill passed through Parliament, at once to in-
vite suitable British and Chinese members to serve
Board of Trustees, and to set the necessary machinery in
motion at Peking with the least possible delay.
on the
Fara.11. The American Fund is administered by a Boart
of this kind, and our suggestions have been largely modelled
on this precodont. It works quite well; and War Lords do
not encroach on the funds or try to manipulate the appoint.
ments.
Para. 12. The original proposals for the creation of
the Science Institute were considerably modified and amended
by the Advisory Committee (pp. 18, 19, 194-5). But the
project itself is one upon which the Chinese intelligentsia,
such as Dr. Ting, and Dr. Tsai, have set their hearts, and
it would clearly be inadvisable to snub them, and tell them
that they are not old enough as yet for such toys.
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