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undoubtedly had extremely bad luck in its attempte to socure financiel assistance from the V.X.
As you will see from the Memorandu 1 thich lord sent to Gilbert on the 4th April, the request for J.K. assistance in 1939, which wee nosupted and strongly supported both by the doloniel Orfice and the Foreign Office, had to be deferred oa sccount of the outbreak of the Far. The removed request made after the er has 180 had to be deferred on sccount of the crisis. ay I add that we fully appreciate 11 the Treasury difficulties here, but that it does sees to us that there is a special case, in the airowastances, for the limited assistance for which the Governor aaka from U.. funds to enable the Hong-ong University to
theno be re-established on the 19l scale.
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Dr. Sloas will not be returning to liong Hong until after next week, and if you would like to sak hin any questions, I will gially arrange a meeting. It would certainly be conveniat 1f sny further information which you may want could be obtained next week in this way. It would also, of course, nasict la reaching en early decision on the re-opening of the University which is now so long over-ine. The Governor has, in frot, sexed if he could have the reply to hie request for this grant from U.. funds before the end of this month.
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ould you also let me know if the fream? would be agreeable to the Governor's proposal to go to the legislature for the ownel grant of H.E./1,500,000? I don't think that there is any
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