Turning to more practical consider. ations, Mr. Chancellor uttered a plea for more Chinese to. go to English Universities, but qualified this ple by urging that they should not go too young, so that they can establish themselves firmly in their own country and with their own people before leaving China, He referred to the system more generally adopted in'Japan, where students destined tv complete' their education abroad. often do not leave Japan until they have had a practical experience of adult fe in their own country. Sometimes they do not leave Japan until they are thirty years old. "Simi. larly, Chinese students should find their feet in China, and should know ind understand theft own country before going abroad.
Mr. Chancellor said that he was a warm supporter of all attempts made to bring Chinese and Britons
other. "He referred to the part play-into daser sociation, "with "each ed by the Sino-British " Cultural Society and also by the small Sino-British debating group of which he was a member. He suggested that small group activities were more kely to lead to understanding and real contact than the larger assoc Hons where Chinese and foreign together" but often do not "get" any further than this as regard:
other. understanding and Knowing each Practical Issues Referring to the practical issues of the present" day "in China, Mr, Chancellor said that it was a' great mistake to regard the" foreign management of railways, industrial enterprises, and foreign investments as being incompatible with national dignity and independeree and illustrate' thie point he described the art played by Great Britain in developing Argentina. He alluded to the gestures already made by Great Britain—the abandonment of concessions and other steps towards new relationship between China' and Foreign Powers. He knew that Britain's sincerity was often ques-Mloned and that the abandonment particularly of the Hunkow Concession often was described as an op-Jportunist gesture, but the fundamental basis of British policy in China should not be considered except as part of established British world ohoy throughout the past twenty years. He referred to the consistent Policy illustrated. in the gradual establishment of self-governing institutions in India. Whatever" may be the immediate application of this policy sometimes ill-timed and some: Limes answerable to charges of inineerity and opportunism there was no doubt whatever that it was a policy which would to continued.
Mr. Chancellor coneluded:—"Let me end on. this note—patience, friendliness, - concentration on the Present and future, forgetfulness of the past. We musi know ourselves, and then we shall more easily know each other."
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