Dear Sant Mayle.
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162 20
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
8th April, 1947.
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Thank you for your letter of 21st March about the
recommendations of the Hong Kong University Advisory Committee.
The delay is, as you realise, disappointing not to myself alone
but to every one out here who knows the position and particularly
to Sloss, with whom I have just been having a talk on the subject.
As regards the question of giving the Advisory Committee's Report
a wider circulation, my own view is that until the decision is given
it is not at all desirable that any publicity should be given to
the recommendations, some of which if known might well give rise
to unnecessary, or at any rate premature, apprehensions as to the
continued existence of the University as such. Sloss agrees with
my view and we are both content that the Report should continue to
be kept strictly confidential pending the decision, which we do
earnestly trust is not going to be much longer delayed.
G. F. Seel, Esq., C.M.G.,
Colonial Office.
incerely
Mark fou
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