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How long will this demand last? For less than a decade, I should say: and surely this is not a sufficiently lasting demand to justify the hasty resuscitation of the University without consultation with, and the collaboration of, the people of the Colony? If the Colony will require (and I agree that it inevitably will) a training College for its future servants over the next few years, surely would it not be better and wiser for the Colonial Government to form an ad hoc Institution (renting the interim premises and footing the bill for all running expenses not recoverable from fees) rather than rehabilitate the University without the local support essential to permanent success?
Circumstances have indeed become so radically different from those obtaining when Lord Lugard founded the Hong Kong University that one may reasonably feel it due to his memory that the question of its resuscitation on the old lines should be reserved for careful consideration and consultation on the spot rather than hastily determined in advance of our re-entry into the Colony.
Training Institution or Pro-University would involve no long-term policy and could be arranged by the War Cabinet Planning Unit and the Secretary of State's Advisers without the incumbrance of any special committee, without subsequent legal or constitutional complications and (most important of all) without prejudice to a future reconstitution of the University with local collaboration and support.
Yours sincerely,
A. R. Reid-Cod
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A Raidecod
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