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NOTE OF A MESTING HELD IN MR. PASKIN'S ROOM
ON THE 1ST DECEMBER, 1949.
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Inter-University
Council
Present:
Mr. J.J. Paskin
- Mr. W. Adams
Mr. P.F. Vowles
Dr. Sloss
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Mr. C.W.M. Cox
Mr. J.B. Sidebotham
Mr. Cox explained briefly why it might not be possible for an Inter-
University Council delegation to visit Hong Kong at Christmas.
that it might be unfair to Hong Kong to wait till Easter.
He felt
Mr. Paskin emphasised the point that it was impossible to get any
further with Hong Kong's application for C.D. and W. assistance from the
Central Education Fund until a delegation had visited Hong Kong.
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Mr. Cox said that Friestley had recently withdrawn as one of the
'possibles' for the delegation, owing to the cut in University grants here
which made the continued presence in this country of Vice-Chancellors necessary.
Professor Easton was threatened with a duodenal ulcer. There was just a
team with
50-50 chance of getting a team with Mr. Adams during the Christmas holidays.
The Treasury attitude towards the utilisation of their £250,000 had rather
'upset the applecart' from the point of view of the Inter-University Council.
Mr. Sidebotham suggested that this was not a real difficulty, and that,
if the Treasury objected to their grant being used in a certain way, it ought
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to be possible to do a switch to obviate this difficulty as between the
Treasury's £250,000 and Hong Kong's £250,000.
Mr. Faskin referred to his letter to Sir A. Grantham of the 27th -
September, in which he set out the position pretty fully.
Mr. Adams explained the Council's attitude: they had originally desired Aguality ayfully financed University, representative of British culture and ideas in the
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Far East. Hong Kong's despatches seeking C.D. and W. assistance had not been
Professor Sir A. Carr-Saunders referred officially to the Council yet. Theodbeckendechefooddons Sea, Pana
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