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To this the R. 6. mission can never consent. I have
intimated informally to the government on behalf of the
mission that
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l'any attempt to impose such books on us would be a violation of the understanding on which we sented to place our schools under
in this matter that I now crave.
had con-
government, inspection and it is to protect us and the interests we represent from any possible future action of the stong kong government,
your Lordships interference. Your Lordship will understand me when I saw = that it is on principle we Roman Catholics object to any interference direct or indirect with our supreme right to the management of our own schools, the regulation If the with this and belection of Ido not I the studies therein and selection of the books by mians
which those studies are to be carried.
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doubt for
our
on.
one moment, either the learning or ability of the members of Sir A. Kennedy's committee.
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I have
no fear of finding anything offensive to faith or morals
any
sellot, or anything positive at which the most sensitive cathodic could take offence, but it is not sufficient that the books used in a Roman Catholic school should contain nothing hurtful, they must contain something positively useful and good in a Catholic sense and a non Catholic committee or a mixed Committee cannot be expected to do more than avoid offence.
Even if this commettic were to select books. of which I could fully approve. I must nevertheless, still object to the principle of selection for us, and not by us. We cannot tell to what it may lead, the have no security against hostile action on the part of any future committee of selection, any ist.
we owe it to curselves
and to H. M. Government to make plain our meaning on this point, so that the matter.
be settled once for all.
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