Extension of 1934 Plan of Technical Collaboration Recommended by Dr. L. Rajchman Shanghai, May 10.
JROPOSALS are being made for an extension of the plat: of collabora~ tion between technical experts of the League of Nations and China in'1934, according to the report to the League Council of its technical delegate, Dr. L. Rajchman, who has returned to Geneva.
The report was compiled Before Japan's attitude towards foreign assistance to China had been defined, as after the statement of April 17. It is dated April 1.
The presence in the League's Nanking office of senior members of that organization is recommended as facilitating ce-operation between them and Chinese technical experts and Chinese departments studying and carrying out measures of reconstruction in the country.
It recom mends also that documentation and surveys of problems submitted to League experts be prepared in vance by Chinese, so that foreign experts arriving in this country do so with foreknowledge of the problem about which they have been asked to advise.
High praise for their excellence and keen perception is given in the report to the many Chinese who have been steadily working outside the limelight for the benefit of thei it country. The report recommends that men of this type be fen opportunities for attending expert con~ ferences of the League and gaining experience abroad to supplement their already extensive knowledge.
In 51 closely printed pages, the report of Dr. L. Rajehman, technical Tialson officer" of the League. of Nations with the National Economic Counctl of China, covering nearly a yenr's work in seven principal folds Chinese activity, was made public esters 'The report, in addition to_ giving the history of the Economic Council and an expose of the status of agriculture, cotton, silk, water conser-fancy, roads, health, and education in China, outlines the' future policy. of the Council and the methods proposed for technical collaboration through the League. In his treatment of the historical phase of the project, he makes no reference to the vigorous Opposition to his mission which was recently displayed in Japanese official circles on the ground that his activities were "anti-Japanest The methods suggested for technical collaboration through the League are expressed in part in the following excerpt from the report Experts' Responsibitities "Experts coming to China under the responsibility of the League have special role to fulfil. 'The League will in future continue to receive Te-quests for their despatch, and pro-ossals are being made for a further extension of the plan of collaboration proposed for 1994. In particular, it may be recalled' that' when the National Economic Council was set up in 1981 the Chinese Government arranged with the Secretary-General for "a constant contact to be maine tained between the Economic and Financial Sections of the League and the permanent organizations of th National Economic Council; and ar~ rangements for the interchange of full statistical and other information." In the present new stage of technical collaboration the need for the maintenance of such 'a contact and its proper organization is desired at an early date, would present to the Secretary General proposals to permit ampler ulllization of the credits in the League budget for technical Liaison in China (and particularly so as to include the office of the Technical Delegate of the Council), "The Standing Advisory Committee of the National Economic Council for economic studies and planning, composed, of the Secretary-General of the Academia Sinica, the Directors of the Geological Survey and of the Gov-emmental Research, and of the Chief Secretary of the National Economic Council, would find it convenient to obtain regularly from the League's Nanking office such information for its constituent institutions as was cone templated in the arrangement, of 1931, The presence in the Nanking office for periods of time of experi-fenced senior members of one of the two sections is particularly desirable the time when the National eonomie Council has selected for study and planning a number of prob-Jems with a view to conerete action.
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