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until questions of re-staffing and
re-equipment had been considered;
(c) that the Registrar Mr. S.V.Boxer
should return from Australia in
order to reopen the Office of the
University in Hong Kong and that
certain senior members of the
teaching staff including Chinese
should return to Hong Kong to
undertake the preliminary work
necessary before the University could
be reopened and to maintain contact
with students and with Chinese
Universities.
Mr. Sloss reported arrangements already
made for refresher courses for medical graduates
trained in Chinese Universities during the
Occupation. Only on their satisfactorily
completing such courses would they be presented
to the Emergency Medical Degrees Committee in
Hong Kong and admitted as graduates of the
University eligible for registration in
Great Britain.
Difficulties in the way of re-establishing
the University on the lines envisaged by
Lord Lugard were then discussed.
The desirability of inviting Chinese delegates
to U.N.O. at present in this country to meet
the Comittee was debated and it was agreed that
it would be inopportune but that Mr. Sloss
should take any opportunities that occurred to
ascertain their views on the future of the
University unofficially.
Mr. Morse seid that the chief reason for the
failure of the University was lack of financial
/resources