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in all countries and the members if I.P.R. Conference with an impartial and
constructive analysis of the situation in the Far East with a view to indicat-
ing the major issues which must be considered in any future adjustment
of international relations in that area. To this end, the analysis will include
an account of the economic and political conditions which produced the
situation existing in July 1937, with respect to China, to Japan and to the
other foreign Powers concerned; an evaluation of developments during the
war period which appear to indicate important trends in the policies and
programs of all the Powers in relation to the Far Eastern situation; and
finally, an estimate of the principal political, economic and social condi-
tions which may be expected in a post-war period, the possible forms of
adjustment which might be applied under these conditions, and the effects
of such adjustments upon the countries concerned.^265According to Holland, it was at a weekend planning conference held at
Jessup’s country home in Norfolk, Connecticut, concerning a number of
specific studies that would form part of the project that Carter decided
that the Inquiry should be administered by the relatively autonomous
International Secretariat of the IPR rather than the IPR’s International
Research Committee as he thought ‘difficulties might arise if Japan
objected to it.’^266 Under instructions from Carter, Holland notified the
Japanese National Council of the IPR of the project on a visit to Tokyo
in late 1937, albeit ‘in a general and unalarming way,’ because of the
expectation ‘that they would be unhappy with anything that appeared to
be an inquest into Japanese military policies in China.’^267
Condliffe served as a specially appointed adviser to the Inquiry as did
Angus and Dennery. On the invitation of Carter, who met him at the
dock in New York upon his arrival from London in late 1938 in order
to take up the position of professor of economics at the University of
California, Condliffe attended the aforementioned Pacific Council
meeting at Princeton. He later recalled that the meeting was con-
vened because of Japanese objections to the proposed Inquiry series
(^265) IPR Inquiry, 1939, ‘Appendix 5: Organization of the Study Meeting, the Inquiry
and the Research Program,’ in Mitchell and Holland, eds., Problems of the Pacific, 1939,
287–88.
(^266) ‘The Memoirs of William L. Holland,’ in Hooper, ed., Remembering the Institute of
Pacific Relations, 22.
(^267) Ibid., 21.