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to the Code already approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies as a Draft Grant Code! I realise that if he keeps on using this expression and it is not corrected that he will before long come to think it is correct.
>- I have, in fact, been more generous than I need have been in view of the minutes of our meeting in London in September, 1948.
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Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Bishop's letter the sort of thing to which there is no answer and is typical of the Bishop's usual line of argument. I did not agree to drop Clause 37 since the majority of the Grant Schools wished it to be retained but I did undertake to find some means to give the Bishop's School Managing Committees more freedom in handling financial matters which at the time were proving so irksome.to them. This I am certain I have accomplished and no matter whether Clause 37 remains or not and whether I exercise my option under the principle of Clause 39, the automatic cut in grant would still be the equivalent of the amount of extra fees collected over and above 50% of the tuition fee.
With regard to paragraph 7 of the Bishop's letter the freedom which the Bishop wished for his Managers and which I was prepared to concede was entirely financial. Indeed, I remember Canon Grace remarking at the meeting that it was restrictions of this nature which were at that time in force which would deter him from accepting a Headmaster's post in Hong Kong. The Bishop wants to have his cake and eat it.
I still maintain that it is not life or death of the Anglican Schools (Bishop's comments on my letter, paragraph 1 (c)) which is the Bishop's problem. It simply is that under the present Code it is likely that the Roman Catholics will outstrip the Protestants in the number of new schools that they can build because the greater sense of religious duty of the Roman Catholics permits them to take less of their salaries for themselves and put a greater proportion into the Catholic Education Fund than the Protestants are willing or able to do. If the Bishop's proposals were accepted in full it would mean that only the wealthy minority of the population would be able to send their children to the Protestant schools in order as it were to provide ammunition in what is really a religious educational war.
I trust/