ALL COMMUNICATIONS
TO BE ADDRESSED TO
THE SECRETARY.
TELEGRAMS, "AUGURY, LONDON"
TELL ONE, WHITEHALL 0187.
In Cox
Shack py
The
Rhodes
Trust
:
Place
Seymour House, Waterloo?
Dear Secretary of State,
TEMPORARY ADDRESS, RHODES HOUSE,
OXFORD.
TEL. 48163,
LUNDDEX X XII.
30th July 1940.
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As I told your Secretary on the telephone yesterday, at
their meeting yesterday the Rhodes Trustees decided that, while
they could not found a Rhodes Scholarship for Hong Kong University
they were anxious to do something, through Hong Kong University,
to help to improve cultural relations between Great Britain and
China. They are willing to offer a sum of £200 a year for
five years to assist some student of Chinese nationality or
Chinese British subject to come to Oxford, or if £200 a year
would not be sufficient they would be prepared to give a larger
sum for a somewhat shorter period. The figure of £200 a year
for five years is merely a tentative suggestion intended to
indicate the kind of thing they have in mind. They instructed
me to discuss and agree upon some practicable scheme with
representatives of your office. I have accordingly arranged
with Mr. Gent to meet him and Cox and, I think, the Governor of
Hong Kong, at your office on the 13th.
With best wishes,
The Rt.Hon.
Yours sincerely,
Plum
The Secretary of State for the Coloniesecretary.
Colonial office
London, S.W.1