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the Promotion of Education and Culture (which administers

a large portion of the funds of the returned American China Indemnity) but also with other agencies engaged upon the promotion of better education in China and of improved cultural relations between East and West in general and M between China and Great Britain in particular.

The problem of the composition of the sub-KK

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committee is ENTIDAEof some difficulty.

consulted favoured the suggestion that it should consist of two main groups, one for the Yangtse Valley, with head- quarters at Nanking or Shanghai, and one for north China meeting at Peiping, and that these two main groups should have official correspondents in other parts of the country. Finally, however, we arrived at the conclusion that the sub- committee should consist of a single body stationed at mu Peiping, with correspondents in the Yangtse Valley, Canton, West China (of which Ch'eng-tu is the cultural capital) and Hong Kong. This conclusion was reached because, as it happens, there are the makings of a much stronger education-

and it was al group in Peiping than in any other region; felt that the sub-committee should be a homogeneous body, I having all its members in constant touch with one another and meeting at frequent intervals.

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As to the personnel of the sub-committee, it

is recommended that it should consist of about seven persons, of whom two might be British. The majority of the Chinese should be British-trained and possess a good knowledge of the British universities and an intimate acquaintance with China's educational needs. Several names of possible members have been suggested, among them those of Dr L.K.Tao, Dr V.K. Ting, and Dr Hu Shih. All these distinguished leaders of modern Chinese thought are associated with one or more of the

activities of the China Foundation for the Promotion of EMINI

Education and Culture, with which, as already observed, our

sub-committee should maintain close touch. Among other