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HONG KONG
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Mr.
Gent.
Sir A! Burns.
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Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.
Mr. C. J. Jeffries.
Mr. A. J. Dawe.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
THE LORD ELTON,
RHODES HOUSE.
OXFORD.
FURTHER ACTION.
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Downing Street,
20
January, 1941.
Dear Lord Elton,
We deve referred the
generous offer of the Rhodes
Trustees contained in your letter
of the 17th of December to the
and Acting Governor of Hong Kong, where
been
hanow requested_ys to convey to
you and the Trustees, an
expression of the appreciation with
which the Government of the Colony
and the University have learned
of that meet-goi
ffor of the
an prepared to proude Trustees the sum of £1,000 in
all to be spent over a period of
•
five years approximately to enable
one or more Chinese or Chinese
British subjects to come to Oxford.
The Government of Hong
Kong accept the proposal in your
letter that these scholarships
should be entitled "Rhodes Trust
Post-Graduate Scholarships,
order to avoid confusion with
Rhodes Scholarships proper and
Council of the University of Hong
Kong will be the governing body for
the administration of the
studentships, including the
nomination