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Sir Bernard Gilbert,
Ka KBE.,CB., Treasury.
FURTHER ACTION.
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Dear Gilbert,
12th April, 1947.
We have been considering the future of the
Hong Kong University, and I want to ask for the
Treasury's very sympathetic consideration of the
following proposals for assistance from the United
Kingdom. They are founded on the importance of
the University to wider British interests as well
s to the Colony itself, and are supported by the
Foreign Office as well as the Colonial Office.
The main
The detailed facts are given in the enclosed
copies of the report of a Committee which was set
up in 1945 to advise on the future of the University
and of a memorandum subsequently prepared by us
and agreed with the Foreign Office.
recommendation of the Committee was that the
University should be re-established as soon as
possible on a firm financial basis with staff and
facilities adequate to make it fully capable of
reaching British academic standards and becoming
effective centre for Sino-British contact in
the sphere of learning, and the memorandum goes
into greater detail about the means of financing
that undertaking.
an
Our whole joint approach to this subject. with
the Foreign Office is on the basis that the maintenance of a British University in Hong Kong is
valuable
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