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by the case for pressing on with
the policy which you and Sloss were
advocating. We attach the highest
importance to the development of the
University as an institution to serve the
needs of students from China and so to
nine promote British relations of a general
cultural nature with that country.
The
response from the Foreign Office was most
satis factory;
Lord Halifax expressed
himself as in entire sympathy with my views
on the subject, and he was of the opinion
that the University was a valuable instrument
for propagating British ideals and spreading
British influence in China, and that it should
be given all the support andassistance
possible in increasing its usefulness in
those respects. Personally, I have little doubt
ould
And
that I shat have a similarly favourable response
A
from the Treasury, but unfortunately the war
broke out to intercept it, and I fear
that
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