COPY.
Confidential.
FOREIGN OFFICE,
LONDON, S. W. 1.
6th March 1931.
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My dear Sir James,
Your letter of the 16th January was so interesting and
covered so much ground that consideration of it by the various
Departments concerned has taken some time. If I may, I will
take your various points seriatim.
1. Hongkong University. It is certainly a defect that
this University should have no faculty of science, and I think
that your letter and the correspondence it encloses will justify
me in suggesting to the Colonial Office, now that the grant of
£265,000 (two hundred and sixty five thousand pounds) provided
by the China Indemnity (Application) Act will shortly become
payable, that this defect might be remedied by means of the new
funds thus made available. We cannot, of course, make the grant
conditional on such use of the funds, or part of them, but in
view of your membership of the Colonial Office Educational Advisory Committee, I hope that a letter from me to Drummond
Shiels may assist you in pressing for such a necessary
development.
2.
Your assumption
Objective of His Majesty's Government.
that our objective is to make what contribution we can to the
restoration of prosperity to China is, of course, entirely accurate. We should favour any proposal which tends to increase
Chinese purchasing power, and hope that our latest legislative performance will help to promote this object.
3. Entry of qualified post graduate Chinese students at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at Trinidad.
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