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The Present Committee and its Terms of Reference.
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During the War the Colonial Office kept the interests of the University in mind. A Memorandum submitted to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet on 20th February,
1945 A restated very clearly the approval of the wider political value that the University might have if properly supported quoting comments and decisions of the Colonial Office and Foreign Office in 1939. The Memorandum was concerned not only with this long range policy, but not less with what could be done to restore the University as quickly as possible to meet the local need especially of Doctors and teachers. Quoting Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune the Memorandum points out that "up till now it is largely to America that China has turned for help in the educational field, whilst, unfortunate as it may be, Britain is associated in the Chinese mind with questions of commerce rather than culture". The Memorandum concludes "It seems to the Colonial office, therefore, that from the chaos of war an opportunity has arisen which can be used to establish the University finally on the lines intended by its Founder and prove it to be an important practical contribution to Anglo-Chinese goodwill and understanding in the future.
12. Shortly before the collapse of Japan another Committee was appointed mainly to consider what could be done to forward the "short-term" policy of opening the University as soon as possible to train men and women needed for the public services, Medicine, Surgery and Teaching especially. That Committee had not sat when members of the University Staff returned from interment in Hong Kong. The Colonial office therefore decided to add to the Membership of the Committee and to widen the terme of reference to include consideration of both short-term and long-term policies. In this manner the present Committee came into being.
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Its terms of reference are:-
(a) to make a recommendation as to whether or not
the University as such should continue to exist, and if so the policy which should govern its resuscitation,
and
(b) to advise in some detail on the steps necessary
to restart such of the work hitherto undertaken by the University as is essential for the needs of Hong Kong, whatever the decision arrived at on the broader issue.
14. The following accepted the Secretary of State's invitation to serve on this Committee;
C.W.M. Cox, Esq, C.M.G. Chairman
Walter Adams, Esq.
E. Burney, Esq., M.C., H.M.I.,
H.J. Channon, sq., C.M.G., D.Sc.
Sir Herbert Eason, C. B., C.M.G., M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S.
Mrs. L. Foster.
Professor W.J. Hinton.
Dr. W.H. Kauntze, C.M. G.,M.B. E.,M.D., F. R. C. P.,D. P. H. A. Morse, Esq., C.B.E.
Sir George Moss, K. B.E.,
Professor L.M. Penson
R. E. Priestley, Esq., M.C., D.Sc.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux-Brune, K.B.E.,C.M.G.,
D.J. Sloss, Esq., C, B. E.
N.L. Smith, 3sq., C.M.G.,
J.A. Venn, Litt. D., F.S.A. Miss A.M. Ruston (Secretary)
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