Dec. 28.
It seems clear from the report submitted to the League of Nations fon reconstruction in this country by the late Dr, Robert Haas, who was: "Technical Liaison Officer of the [League here, that one of the {uctors nich has sometimes prevented forjcign technical experts from giving! of their best has been removed with the creation of the National' Economic Council. This was the tendency to regard foreign experts the appointees of some particular ministry or individual, and perhaps lan extravagance on the part of that ministry or individual that his suc-[cessors would repudiate. The result} was that much valuable advice was [committed to paper and the paper' then committed to pigeon-holes where it mouldered in disregard. With a ce-ordinating body, controlling and inspiring the recon-[struction movement throughout the) country as is the National Economic 'Council and its Advisory Committee, extraordinary progress has been made. Experts' reports have been given their due merit and acted upon. The hard facts of science, which ore the same in China es in Britain or in Timbuctoo, have been mad: use of in circumstances: adapted 10 local conditions. There has been no blind copying; there has been instead a blending of the material discoveries of the west with the needs of the more mystical cast that is a striking testimony to the vitality of this great people. 'The general remarks of Dr. Haas' report might be classified under three main headings: first, inspiration; second, experimentation; and third, League leo-operation. Perhaps the most remarkable to the dweller in the "Treaty Ports who has not had the loppuitunity to see for himself the work being done in the interior, is the first. The Government In Nanking and the Governors of the prov-finees have alike realised the importance of reconstruction, both rural and otherwise. It has been placed first among the needs of the country. And no longer is there a [belief that the country can be saved by the wave of a magic wand. {There is a real determination {o get Jdown to work; patience is exercises Jand the zealous know that they cat hope for little material reward.
Dr. Haas emphasized in the re~ port the Chinese understanding that they will have to rely upon thomselves, rather than upon foreign financial assistance, in carrying out their numerous reconstruction programmes. It is realised that China
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