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ORAL STATEMENT.
Mr. Galsworthy
19.1.
Mr. Cowell 20.1.
Mr. Mayhew 23-1
When the Report of the University Com-
mittee was published last year it aroused opposi-
tion in certain quarters in the Colony, and gave
rise to a suggestion here that a review of its
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findings, and of the whole question of University
policy, in the light of expert opinion from this
country, was needed.
This suggestion was communicated by the
Secretary of State, shortly after publication of
the Report, to the Hong Kong Government, which de-
precated such a course at present on the grounds
that there was definite evidence of the existence
in Hong Kong of a strong public opinion against
any delay in proceeding with the internal reforms
of the University which had been recommended, and
that, if there were any suspicion that the Report
was to be side-tracked, the result might be the
resignation of most of the European unofficial
members of the Court and Council of the University,
and possibly also of certain of the Chinese
members.
For this reason, and in view of the
concurrence