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My dear Lady Cripps,
Home Farm,
LEWKNOR. Oxford.
October 19th 1948.
Sent from Itag kang monobly
before (75) wishes there and
certainly before (17) did
I have had letters this last week from both the Governor of Hong Kong and the Vice Chancellor of the University, on the subject of Reconstruction Grants to the University.
As I think we have fallen between Foreign Office and Colonial Office, I am writing to you to ask Sir Stafford's advice.
Since he came to the Treasury, we have got the £250,000 from the Treasury: but (as a result (?) the Colonial Welfare Committee have withdrawn the £250,000 we had hoped to get from them.
Malaya and the West Indies have got very large grants.
I know Ronald Adams considers Hong Kong University important from the British Council point of view: but we badly need the £250,000 more, if we are to be of some use to the British Council, and to take our place in Sino- British Relations. This argument however does not interest the Colonial Office!
I am writing for advice before I ask Creech Jones for an interview.
Yours ever
R.0. Hall.
(Bishop of Hongkong).