Report of H.K.U.A.C. for submssion to H.M.G. Comment from G.H.Forster. (Mrs L. Forster)
The papers received contain a fair statement of the opinion and suggestions of the Advisory Committee.
I and II set out clearly the considerations which the Committee had in mind, and states succintly its judgment in favour of the setting up in Hong Kong of a University which will not only fulfil the purposes of the original foundation but will satisfy the wider post-war conception of what relations between China and Hong Kong and Great Britain should be.
Reviewing past hopes and difficulties, the Report rightly makes a bid for the proper fulfilment of hope s already strongly held though long deferred.
In doing so it affirms belief in the quality of British learning and teaching and assistance which that can render in the development of China and of co-operative and fraternal relations - now generally recognised as being so highly desirable
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which, in a somewhat lone course, members of the University Staff have ever striven to attain, not without some measure of success.
I. Third page
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last paragraph.
Though I do not myself envisage the possibility of the eventual secession of Hong Kong from the Empire with the dark dismay which such a suggestion would create in the minds of large numbers of the British public, at the moment I demur at the statement :
"An institution which is likely eventually to be handed over
to her
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I should be sorry if China welcomed the resurrection of our University because she hoped one day to have it in her own hands.
Our proposal is to erect a British University. What- ever future developments, we are asking now for financial support for such an institution, informed in the first instance by British ideas and ideals, British administration, British thought, British standards of education and learning the British public for no more, at this juncture.
we ask
Certain elements in such an institution could never be 'handed over1.
I should prefer the deletion of the first two sentences in this paragraph.
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II. Paragraph 4 (b).
Chinese Nationalist feeling 1923/31"
I must offer the evidence of my own experience.
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Throughout these years critical years in the history
of Anglo-Chinese relationships
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some of us maintained the
closest co-operation, on easy, friendly terms with educated