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to be attached in present circumstances to the points
there raised.
Sir Edward Gent said that this letter
an
represented the extremely pessimistic view, but he should
mention that it was written at a time when Sir Andrew
He was sure was in a state of personal distress.
Sir Andrew would be glad to come up to London sometime
to meet the Committee who could then judge whether his
morale was still in the same condition as it was when
he wrote the letter in question.
The Chairman thought it was just as well to
refer to it, and si Edward fanet Gent's reply was that
it led nowhere.
Co
connected with
The Chairman's second point was that he
thought it would be helpful to raise while Sir Edward
was still present, Paper No. 2, which was the report of
yet another Committee that met in 1943) in the Colonial
Office at a time when the war in the Far East looked
This commit so like going on for a very long time. It reviewed the
future of higher education both in Malaya and in Hong
Kong and in peragroch 10 referen
marie to further
sgestion whiel mi htci itt
atio with the original position of Lord Lugard.
In their esamination of the question of the future-of
Hon Kon University, the amittee were faced with the
questi... whether Hong Kong University should in the future
be regnt - 20 an instrument of British policy towards
China and tie Far East as conceived the founders of
The Ihi☺rsity, or as n institution catering for local
-neuds. At that time they were-inclined to view,
for both territories favourably the possi ility of one university although
they were rather evenly divided as to whether such
university should be located in Hong Kong or Malaya.
However They decided that they were not competent at
that time to make any pronouncement on the question
9.
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