necessary to maintain the University in its full functions functions which in any case serve an Imperial policy and not a local Hong Kong purpose.
It is no good our expecting grants from the Treasury during war, but another possibility occurs to me which would help in present circumstances.
Could we make a case for asking the Rhodes Trust to establish a Rhodes scholarship annually or every other year for a graduate or undergraduate of the Hong Kong University of Chinese nationality or a Chinese British subject? With the suspension of Rhodes scholarships from Germany and I believe from the U.S.A., it is likely that they may have funds available for the purpose, and I have no doubt that we could get strong support from the Foreign Office. If such a mack of recognition from the Rhodes Tomol of be girem, it wi I beber, be sof many great influram
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