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(v) generally to encourage closer intellectual co-

operation and to promote cultural relations

between China and the United Kingdom.

It seems clear that only a person of industry

and ability, and possessing knowledge and experience of no

ordinary kind, could be expected to deal satisfactorily with

the various departments of so comprehensive a scheme of work.

He should be prepared to devote his whole time to his duties,

and being necessarily a man of special qualifications he should

receive adequate remuneration. In our opinion the best and

most convenient arrangement would be for the post to be combin-

ed with that of Secretary to the Universities China Committee.

The Committee would thereby remain in close touch with the

whole programme of work end would also be in a position to see

that the various educational projects which it had sponsored were being carried out to its satisfaction and in full accord- ance with its own authorised plans.

We recommend that the Secretary of the organiza- tion be paid a salary of £1,000 a year, and we would allocate a further sum of 3400 a year for office and other expenses, including clerical assistance. We also suggest that a maximum

of £500 a year be set aside for administrative, travelling and miscellaneous expenses. The Committee will probably consider it desirable that its Secretary, being also the IT officer in charge of its varied activities, should at rare intervals of perhaps three years or more pay a short visit to China K in order that he may maintain close contact with actual conditions and may also keep in touch with the members of the correspond- ing organization or sub-committee which, as we have said, should be set up in that country. It may also be considered desirable that the Secretary of the sub-committee in China (to which de- tailed reference will be made in the following sub-section) should pay similar occasional visits to England. All the costs of such visits should, we suggest, be met out of the £500 assigned to the Secretariat of the Universities China