Mr. R. D, Gillespie, Acting Chairman of Imperial Chemical" Indus-tivies (China). Ltd Was host the dinner and briefly introduced Sir Harry MeGowany who. said Even my very short stay great country leaves the impression ery. definitely.in my mumd that Wwe in the West. know litle or nothing about it, and.on my return to England I shall do what I can to induce leaders of industry there to maken visit here. With the hecossity of making important and Prompt' decisions it is insufficient Tosend out. subordinate Whose reports, are very." often pisconholed and their recommenda: Yions not acted on. With rapidly hanging economic conditions it ferential in my opinion that he chiefs themselves of industrial cor Parations at home should get into personal contact with what fs going throughout. the world, only by 80 ig that they get a proper perspective which cannot be Obtained by' correspondence, 'Although T have only been in China for a very short tung. and fam, therefore, not yet competent to write a book' on the problems this vast country, I have had sufficient contact with people to be impressed with what one has heard:
home of Chini skening, Rightly or wrongly there is a wave of. economic nationalism—going through. the world at the present time. Countries hitherto agricultural now have aspirations to industrialism to make themselves more self-contained, less depen-mut on foreign sources of manufactured goods. - China is no exception to this desire to develop her resources.
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