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To:-
His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG, MC, HONG KONG
From
Sir L Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
PRIVACY MARKING
Лови
in our own domestic
interest
..In Confidence
1.
You will by now have had our rather bald telegram
explaining that we do not wish to vary the offer for
the technical institutes. I would like to fill the
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case out a little bit in this letter and to explain
more fully why we have taken the line we have.
could not do so in the telegram because it had to be
cleared with ODA, who have to some extent been the
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nigger in this particular wood pile.
2.
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As you know this initiative of HMG's stemmed from
the strong feeling which all of us had during Royle's
visit to Hong Kong in October that the need for
technical training at a lower level than would be
provided by the Polytechnic was among Hong Kong's most
urgent needs. This thought was uppermost in the minds
of many of those, including UMELCO members, with whom
he spoke. The four technical institutes, whose
creation has been proposed by the Industrial Training
Advisory Committee (ITAC), seemed well to meet this
need. At the same time we were rather horrified to
hear that one result of Japanese generosity might be
that the institutes, or some of them, might be equipped
with Japanese machinery. We felt strongly that the
Japanese must be pre-empted and on our return to this
country Royle spoke in the strongest terms to the
also
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Minister of Overseas Development stressing/the need for
& confidence political reasons for a substantial gesture, Hong Kong.
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