No.
53611/20
4
12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL.
March 15th, 1940.
My dear Gent,
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Many thanks for your confidential
and personal letter regarding Sloss. He is, as you
know, by now in England. I have strongly urged
him to carry on with the Vice-Chancellorship of
the University not only until his contract time
is up, but for the duration of war, if the war
is not over first.
You will have seen, probably,
a copy of the telegram which I sent to Sloss
via
via the Colonial Office, suggesting that he
should make inquiries as to the possibility of
obtaining assistance for the Hong Kong University
from the Colonial Development Advisory Committee
under the new scheme. The Hong Kong University
is the one manifestation of British culture in
this quarter of the globe, and it is to my mind
of the highest importance from the Imperial point
of view that the University should not only
continue but should rise to a considerably higher
grade than it occupies at present.
The universities
which are financed and directed by Americans
flourish throughout China and compare only too
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., 0.B.E., D.S.O.,
M.C.