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of the A.C.E.C

on 14 October 19317

Mr. Poynton.

I think this cutting from "The Times"

of 28. 7. 31 should be placed on the file relating

to cultural relations with the Far East. The

question of inviting to the meeting Mr. K.H.

Tawney, London school of Economics, who is to take

part in the Mission referrea to in the cutting,

will deserve consideration. The name also of Mr.E.

halphs, late Acting-Director of Education, Hong

Kong, who has been engaged for some time in con-

sidering arrangements for Hong Kong students in

this country, might also be noted in this connection,

as faċilities for Chinese students over here is

part of the problem referred to in the Economic

Mission Report.

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28. 7. 31.

EAUIANUE UP I NOTES

WITH CHINA

LEAGUE APPOINTMENTS

FROM OUR LEAGUE CORRESPONDENT

GENEVA, JULY 26

The League Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, which to-day concluded its session, considered the request of the Chinese Government asking the compe- tent League institutes and organs to cooperate with China in the intellectual and scientific domains, in particular through the agency of interchanges of uni- versity professors. China would send to Europe scientists, writers, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists; the League would organize the dispatch to China of specialists in medical and natural science and on legal and political questions.

The Committee has appointed the following persons as professors for Nanking Univer- sity-MM. Parejas (Switzerland), Professor of Geology at Geneva University, and Kredner (Germany), Professor of Geography at Canton University. A Professor of English Literature will be appointed later. The salaries of the professors will be supplemented by the League from special funds at the disposal of the Secretary-General.

As regards the study of the organization of the Chinese educational system the Committee has appointed a mission which will include Professor Carl Becker, former Prussian Minister of Education, Professor Falski, Director at the Polish Ministry of Education, Professor Langevin, of the Collège de France, Mr. R. H. Tawney, of London, and Mr. Walters, a British member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, who will be attached as a special adviser. M. Henri Bonnet, Director of the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, will join the mission in China. The Chairman of the Committee proposed to attach to the mission expert on educational films and to recommend the Assembly to make arrange- ments for the necessary financial resources.

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