It is always unfortunate when civil servants, national or international,
get dragged into the papers by name as centres of controversy. But since that fate has befallen Dr. Ludwig Rajeliman in connexion with the Japanese "Hands Off China" declaration it is as well to understand what Dr. Rajchman's position is. He himself is one of the ablest members of the League of Nations Secretariat, Director of its Health Section, and principal architect of most of the singularly bene- ficent efforts in international co-operation exerted by the League in the sphere of public health from the anti- typhus fight in 1920 onward. It was as a League health expert that he first went to China to help lay the foundations of a national health service. Being in China at the time of the Manchurian coup in 1931 he no doubt felt as most people outside Japan did about the Mukden rape, and the Japanese may quite well have known or suspected that. But Dr. Rajclunan's chief offence, it may be assumed, is that he is helping to make China capable of helping herself. He is an extremely able Pole, and did a good deal of his medical training in London before the War.
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