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I agree generally with Mr. Gent. Clearly
we must leave out of account, at present anyhow, the
possibility of University experts selected for the
higher education enquiries in Malays being asked to
go on to Hong Kong. Perhaps a note to this effect,
if approved by higher authorities, should be inserted
on the Malaya Higher Education Commission file.
With reference to . in the last paragraph
of Dr. Sloss' letter (enclosure to no.1) I suggest
that the Governor might be told in reply that the
possibility of outside experts being required later
on, say in six months time, to which Dr. Sloss
refers, has been noted, and the hope might be ex-
pressed that the Governor will let the Secretary
of State know before the end of the year any further
development of the situation.
Though the University is constitutionally
autonomous, its future seems to be a matter of more
than local concern. If the intention of those who
were responsible for its establishment is maintained,
i.e. if the University is to carry weight in South