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Dr.P.W.Kuo (Vice-Minister of Finance,
Chinese Embassy).
Dr.W.G.S.Adams, the Warden of All Souls (Universi
China Committee).
Sir John Pratt (Universities' China Committee). Mr.F.J.P.Richter (Universities' China Committee Sir Franklin Sibly (Vice-Chancellors' Committee).. Mr.W.B.Brander (Vice-Chancellors' Committee).
The Foreign office informed us that they were adequately covered by the presence of Sir John Fratt on the Committee.
The Committee elucidated the offers from the Universities and discovered that the main problem was the provision of maintenance funds for students who might be elected to one of the free places. At the last meeting on 17th March, 1942, we discovered that we could assume that 16 students would be offered free places in British Universities following Dr.2.Y.Kuo's tour.
After these negotiations had been proceeding for some time, the British Council was of opinion that immediate action was necessary and gained the necessary consent to inform the Chinese authorities that the British Council would itself be prepared to find the maintenance for 10 students and the Ministry at Chungking has been duly informed of that offer. It is hoped that the Universities' China Committee will also be able to find maintenance for a few of the students.
The Chinese themselves have been most warmly interested in these developments and their Embassy in London informs me, that a special Committee has been set up in Chungking to deal with the scheme.
We are not likely to receive students under this scheme during the period of the war, while transport conditions remain as they are at present, with the possible exception of one or two outstanding men in science or medicine whose work may be considered to have relation to the war effort.
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