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With reference to the forthcoming visit next
spring of visitors from the Inter-University Council
to the University of Hong Kong, I am, etc., to
request you to inform the Council that he is anxious
to take this opportunity,
before the proposed
delegation proceeds to Hong Kong, to refer to some
of the reasons which, in Mr. Creech Jones' view, make
continued support of the University, and particularly
its early abilit
llitation, matters of urgent concern
to him.
Since the decision f 1948 to
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University on the 1940 scale was taken, the
political background against which the position of
the University has to be viewed has changed sub-
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stantially. Communist forces have overrun the
larger part of the Chinese mainland, and have
taken over the Chinese Universities. H.M.G. have
publicly stated in Parliament and elsewhere their
intention to maintain their position in Hong Kong,
and, while anxious to live on friendly terms with
their neighbours, have felt it desirable some months
ago substantially to rainforce the garrison of Hong Kong
There is at against pos ible external aggression.
the present time no indication that such aggression