Dr. Scott submitted that the sums available rendered. it imperative to concentrate on a single purpose euch" as educational and medical work, and to leave to other agencies national needs which, though desirable in themselves, were barred by financed, suchos railways, motor roads,' conservancy, a national museum. He advocated higher education and medicine as our field of activity, because such a disposal of the Fund would involve ce-operating. on equal-terms with Chinese over all her 18 Provinces, and would in the process help Chinese and Eng-Jish to know one another better. 'This aim should be followed up in England by the endowing of professorships in Chinese, and of scholarships to bring' Chinese graduates to British Universities; also, by the founding in London of Chinese Club to. form a social entre and rallying-place, primarily for Chinese students but also for "Leave China to get culties in her own We cannot thus lay aside responsibilities assumed towards her in various treaties and at the Washington Conference; nor oan we leave China exposed unaided to the open machinations of Soviet Russia and the disguised ambitions of. Japan. As to the machinery of ce-operation, it was a mistake to suppose that the only Committee contemplated by thd "Foreign Office wae a statutory: one which - would "Rondon sand: contain. tare of things; this Comniitéee, far as education in China was concerned, could only be a Committee Moderators; but in England it would be fully operative as regal both the various interests of Chin-jose students and the promotion of the study of Chinese language and Certain dangerous tendenei were strengthening to-day in China; a public opinion anti-foreign and anti-Christian in character, was being stirred up. To counteract this jour best policy would be carefully to plan and firmly to carry out such schemes of social betterment as may Jeommend itself to us, regardless of these tendencies; and to trust that and good will would in the willing ce-operation ners to work with us, everything depended. Otherwise, the money might ax well be poured into the Yangtze; there the fishes were so busy, they would not stir up mud Jagainst us. To secure willingness, however, there was in his opinion Dut one field—higher education, in-eluding medical work—ane but' one
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