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ANNUAL REPORT ALTHOUGH it is not easy in the absence of any financial statement to judge from the report of the British Council for the year ended March 3 as to how far the activities of the Council are now in balance either geographically or function ally, the report gives a convincing answer to some of the more captious criticisms, and in particular it is possible to assess from it how large a contribution the Council is making to the interchange of knowledge. Geographically, the most interesting feature of the report is the account of the activities of the Council in liberated Europe and the intense demand for British books and for information regarding Britain in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. Work in Latin America has also gone ahead, but in the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories there has been consolidation rather than expansion. With the withdrawal from the United Kingdom of large numbers of Allied troops and civilians, the work of the Council at home changed considerably. Leave courses gradually diminished, but the scholarship programme was considerably extended, 405 being offered as against 115 in 1944, and some 307 holders of British Council scholarships arrived in the United Kingdom during the year. A Students' Welfare Department was established to supervise the general welfare of such students and certain other students from overseas and to offer them facilities for study, travel and recreation. Lecture courses for such students and other overseas visitors, an information services department, exhibitions and a series of informative pamphlets are among the ways in which the Council has sought to help overseas visitors to understand the British way of life.
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The British Council. Nature 158, 953–954 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158953a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158953a0