that it should stand and make it serve the
purpose for which it was intended.
Such
a University the Hongkong Covernment
people
and xxxix cannot be expected to finance
They should contribute, as they did and to
the extent they did, before the war, for
the reconstituted University will serve
what need for higher education they have,
not worse but better than before.
seb
But
the main issue is one the Foreign Office
and Colonial Office must decide and the
main cost will be for the British people
and Government to meet. This is the essential
issue for decision and we have therefore
IR
set it first in our
Report
and have endeavoured
to marshal the arguments for and against.
We go on to set out the minimum that in our
opinion any British University so situated.
should possess, and we have endeavoured very
roughly - no more is possible at this juncture
to assess the cost. As part of our Terms of
Reference we have been asked to report upon
the University's immediate needs. Txinax
This we have done though we have subordinated
this part of our task to what we consider
to be the overriding problem and the over
riding need.
pala
What we purp propose in this report
can be carried out without prejudice to
the major decisions upon the attinete fate