CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
KENNETH MACLENNAN
IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS
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13th October 1925
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Your letter of August 27 th, 1925, dealing with
German missions in Hongkong, was submitted to the above
The Committee at a meeting held on the 9th instant,
matter was carefully considered, and I have been directed
to reply as follows:-
2 In regard to the Rhenish, Berlin and Hildesheim
missions the Committee are satisfied that the Secretary of
State should approve the arrangements proposed regarding the
properties of these missions, which arrangements we believe
to be in accord with the wishes of the societies themselves.
In regard to the Basel Mission, while recognising
that it is possible that the Government has sufficient reasons for objecting to the return of individual Basel missionaries, though the Committee are without information in regard to any such reasons, the Committee would find it very difficult to acquiesce in a decision to exclude the Basel Society permanently from Hongkong. Such exclusion would seem
to them to be a violation of the principle of missionary freedom, which the missionary societies of all countries regard as a vital missionary interest, and the recognition of which it has been, and is, their constant endeavour to secure alike
within and without the British Empire. Having regard, however, to/