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FOREIGN OFFICE ATTINDE.
The Committco was disappointed that
the representative of the Forcin
Office on the Committee having regard to the immodiate
disturbance in Chinese internal affairs, did not feel free to
re-affirm the approving judgment of Lord Halifax quoted in
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's letter to the Governor of Hong Kong.
The Committee, therefore, continued ite work in an atmosphero
to some degree abstracted from reality.
It-wus_realised that without strong support from the
Forcim Office there was little hope of adequat, support from 24 the Treasury.
Nvgıtkele 5s, The Committee, conrinced that
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the University was a good instrument of a friendly policy, and
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that the nood for it was not materially decreased by the
effective work that is being done in China by the British
Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it
believes would be of value. It was assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experienne hold approve
which is appended to there noto In making its 'blue print' the Committee has had the aid of
the recorded views and recommendations of Frofessor Percy
Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British
Council in China and Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the
Council's Far East Department in London.
Consideration has
been given also to the suggestions of past and present members
of the UniversityStaff and to recommendations made by the
Hong Kong University Committeo of 1939.
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