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Embassy might be consulted.
It was agreed that the first meeting of the Committee need not await the selection of a scientist and an orientalist, but that it should be understood that these were vacant chairs which it was hoped to fill later. The Committee themselves may have recommendations to make in the matter.
10. The Foreign Office should be informed regarding the establishment of the Committee and its objects and given an opportunity of nominating a member if they wished. It was considered doubtful, however, whether they would take a very active interest at present, due to the pressure of other work, and it was agreed, therefore, that Sir George Moss, Consul-General, Hankow before his retirement and more recently head of the M.E.W. Far Eastern Mission (one of $.0.E.'s activities), should be invited to join. The Foreign Office should, however, be kept in touch with the Committee's recommendations, deliberations
being
11. Finally Mr. Cox proposed the inclusion of Mr. Walter Adams e Secretary of the Inter University Council of Great Britain which established on the deep of the Asquith Commission to assist the growth of Colonial Universities. Mr. Adams was previously the connecherd wish secretary of the Political Intelligence Department
of the or office.
Foreign
12.
It was agreed that Mr. Cox should be recommended as Chairman of the Committee.
13. The full list of names for the proposed Committee is therefore,
Mr. C. Cox, Chairman,
Mr. Sloss,
Dr. R.E. Priestley,
*Mr. Walter Adams,
*Professor Lilian Penson,
Professor Roxby
or a scientist,
A nominee of the G.M.C.,
An orientalist,
*Sir George Moss,
Mr. Morse,
Mr. N.L. Smith,
Mrs. Forster.
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Colonial Office representative (Miss Ruston) 14. It was thought that letters of invitation to the proposed new members (those in the list above) should be based on the letters sent to the original members (see 20) in which the invitation is to plan in the necessary detail for the short range resuscitation of the University. It was Mr. Sloss's view, however, that it would not be possible for the Committee to plan effectively until an answer can be given on the major question of principle as to whether the University is to meet the local needs of Hong Kong only or to serve the needs of China also. Mr. Gent suggested that the Committee's first task would be to make a recommendation on this issue. Mr. Cox pointed out that in this case it would be necessary that the Committee should be aware of the parallel proposal that had been put forward confidentially namely the establishment of a
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