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22. Professor Hinton said it was true that in the
disorders of the revolution contact with the Chinese was
rather lost, but he did not think there was at first any
hostile feeling.
The Provincial Governments who paid
for these scholarships found other uses for their money.
National feeling did not come in until 1923, but from
that time the situation had been as Mr. Sloss described it,
and would he thought be exactly the same if we attempted
to commend Britain to China through Hong Kong University
and there were a violent agitation in China for the return
of the Leased Territories, or of Hong Kong itself.
Had we
paid for those scholarships ourselves instead of replying
on payment by the Provincial Governments, we could have
kept our contact, could have found the number of students,
and could have produced our effect on them.
We had tried
instead to get the Chinese people themselves to pay for
spreading British ideas in China.
He submitted that
Britain must expect to pay for her own propaganda.
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