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Mr. Gent.
You and Sir Henry Moore may like to see
this note of my talk yesterday with Dr. Sloss
before your talk with him on Friday at 12 o'clock.
2 Dr. Sloss hopes that it may be possible
to arrange a meeting with Foreign Office represen- tatives before the end of July, as he hopes to take his family abroad in August. But he will
be able, if necessary, to get back to England if
required for a sub-committee at any time in
August.
3
He suggests that the following might be
the brought into discussion, either at the meeting
A
which is planned for the near future or at some
subsequent stage.
(a)
(b)
Mr. Masson, who is now
apparently permanently at home.
Sir Will Spene, who as you
know as Chairman of the Universities Bureau has
taken
a very great interest in Hong Kong University
affairs. He is now a member of our Advisory Committee, and educationally he carries considera-
ble weight in Government circles at present.
(c)
British Council.
Some representative of the
The Ambassador in China, with
whom Dr. Sloss has had a talk, has written to the
British Council on the subject.
4
He suggested also that Sir William Peel,
who is the Hong Kong representative on the Uni-
versities Bureau might perhaps be of use.
He
mentioned also the name of Dr. Roxby, Professor of Geography in Liverpool, who has visited China
and Hong Kong, and was much interested in Uni-
versity matters there, but I do not think that