Students and the American Boxer Mone; from Political Interference Committee Freed Conferences are being the New Year Weeks sandmand Conference king, the other is, the Rewular Meeting of "the China Chiang had been annulled by the Government, As payments of the indemity are made each month from the! Treasury Department of the United! States on a voucher specifying that the money is paid in accordance with the executive omer of the President which quotes the charter or constitution of the Boor of Trustees, the payments have been automatically} Stopped since last August pending solution of the question of con-wary 5.
"The comparison may seem at first sight too far fetched, But to those who lave followed the recent dlevelopm moorning the China Foundation, the fundamental issues involved in' the Tangehow Confer~ ence of a few Chinese and American trustees are certainly no less. important than those to be discussed fat the Nanking, Conference on Dis-
The net result of the Mangchow aneotinge was the establishment of the principle of self-perpetuation and freedom from political control and interference,—a principle vital to the permanence and responsibility of bands of trustees in chao fof educational and scientific foundations, The China Foundation for the Promotion of Kdueation and Cul ture, which was formed of the second portion of Boxer Indemnity returned Yo Chinn wy the American Govern~ governed by a teustees,—10 Chinese and Article 3 of its Constitution saya that the trustees are fo be "appointed! in the first instanstitutiona The istry of Education soon saw the difficulty, and was willing tu take steps to remedy the situation, Both the former Minister Dr. Tsai Yuen-pei_and his successor Dr. Chianyt Moulin are members of the original Board and also among the new appointees. When Dr. Chiang wgeame Minister of Eaucation, he sent a letter to the original requesting it to call a meeting its original members at an cacy date, Dr, Chiang's action was sanctioned by the Executive Courcil which issued on December 26 an onder] authorising the Ministry of Edueation to call a meeting of the original] Board of Trustees of the China Foundation "to work out steps of reorganization in order to facilitate its operation." This order was further confirmed by the National [Governaient—w issued on January 2 an edict authorizing the action of the Ministry of Education and granting to the Ministry the power to "take necessary steps in the Tight lof actual conditions so that the work. ting of the educational and cultural takings may be better facilitate
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