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I was later told by H. E. the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the President had spoken to him of the visit of the representative of your Committee, and had expressed his pleasure that there was likelihood in this connection of establishing relations with America on a basis other than that of politics or finance. His Excellency gave as his opinion, in view of these facts, that there would be no difficulty in obtaining a gift of land and buildings outside the Legation Quarter for our headquarters, and conversations with the Minister for Education and the Prime Minister corroborated this. The Chinese officials seems already familiar with the main points of our proposals, and interested in the further details which I gave them.

If a move could be made at once, through the American Minister, Dr. Reinsch, who is closely identified with our work, and Mr. E. T. Williams who has since taken charge of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs at Washington, I feel confident that the gift of land and buildings from the Chinese government could be secured. 

My recommendations concerning this matter appear in another place in this report. It is sufficient to say here, that I should not be in favor of adopting the proposal to place the School headquarters outside the Legation Quarter, if I were not reluctantly convinced that it is impossible to secure adequate space within in. In addition I realize as I state below, that there are several other advantages which tend to offset the obvious desirability of being identified, by proximity as well as name, with the representatives of our