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3. If this recommendation in favour of the re-establishment of the University is approved, there will, I think, be a good case for confining Hong Kong's financial responsibility to that proportion of the expenditure involved, both capital and recurrent, which can be said to be required to meet the needs in this respect of the people of the Colony. The balance would, in those circumstances, have to come from United Kingdom funds, subject to the possibility of one or more of the Dominions making contributions. This is certainly only a possibility at the moment and will probably depend very largely on whether it is decided, as a matter of policy, to invite the collaboration of the Dominion Governments. would be no reason why an application should not bes made under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act for assistance in meeting Hong Kong's share of the coat, both capital and recurrent.
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4. The decision on the main recommendation of the Committee will obviously depend to a great extent on the Foreign Office and Treasury. The report has not yet been before the Secretary of State. When printed copies are available in final form and it is submitted the view put forward by the Department will be that the report should be sent to Mr. Bevin with unqualified support of the principal recommendation and the suggestion that, if Mr. Bevin agrees, there should be a joint Colonial office and Foreign Office submission to the Chancellor in favour of the acceptance of that recommendation. We have, however, some doubts of the soundness of the Committee's view that the needs of the Colony alone do not justify the maintenance of a University. It is arguable that with a
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