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DRAFT. LETTER.
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Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
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For the Secretary of State's signature
RT. HON. ERNEST BEVIN, M.P.
Memorandum (scopies) HK. Univern, Ola
upat (2 copns)
FURTHER ACTION.
May I bring to your notice the question
of the re-establishment of the Hong Kong
University?
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The details are set out in the enclosed which, ligeten witte tän
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The Offer which wiggered with this waster, memorandum. The proposition is, in short, tha
Ния кад if the money can be found, the University
should be re-established On a larger scale thai
is required to meet the needs of the Colony, s
that it will more worthily represent British
scholarship in the Far East and will be able
to take a far larger number of students from
outside Hong Kong, mainly from China, than it
did before the war.
This seems to me to be a very sound
am
persuaded
scheme and I think that there is a good case
substantial
miuue
for a/contribution from United Kingdom funds towards the cost. If you agree, as I sincerely
hope you will, I should be most grateful if
you could authorise your people to work out
with my people the details of a joint approac.
to the Treasury for a contribution from
United Kingdom funds. The figures which have
been tentatively suggested are £500,000 toward
the capital expenditure and £30,000 per annum
towards the recurrent expenditure.