EXTRACT FROM EASTERN WORLD' DECEMBER, 1947
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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY
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The British Government is very slow in coming to a decision about Hong Kong University. It is the wish of all who desire friendship with the Chinese that this university shall act as a great beacon of knowledge, occidental and oriental, for China, Hong Kong and even Japan, just as we hope to see the proposed University of Singapore take a similar place in South East Asia. The college was damaged during the occupation and needs money spent on it, but more than money it needs assurance about is future and the green light to go ahead on its true course. This need for a green light applies to Hong Kong administration as a whole, which has suffered by a dispute between the Foreign and Colonial Offices and requires clear cut directions. For our part the solution is obvious. Make Hong Kong a "shop-window of democracy" in the Far East and put British social, political, spiritual and physical goods in it.
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