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grateful for your advice and assistance. If it
is possible to pursue it, its moral effect and its
practical significance would, I think, be a
tremendous encouragement both to the cause of Anglo-
Chinese cultural relations and to the University.
This possibility is that the Rhodes Trust
could be asked to consider the establishment of a
Rhodes Scholarship, annually or in alternate years and
tenable at Oxford, for a graduate or undergraduate
of Hong Kong University of Chinese nationality or a
Chinese British subject If such a mark of
recognition from the Rhodes Trust could be given,
it would, I am convinced, have a very important
effect at this time particularly, which is a crucial one in the Far East Bahch interests.
I am confident that the Foreign Office
would lend strong support to the application, but as
I am in some doubt whether such a project could
properly be held to fall within the range of the
Trust's activities, I should much appreciate your
view before taking further steps in the matter.