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it is to be anythin, more than a waste of money and
an encouragement for loafing, must have a well qualified,
capable and energetic staff. Such a staff cannot come from China, for men with the required qualifications and experience scarcely exist as yet. It would not easily be recruited from Great Britain even if, as seems unlikely, its promoters were willing to appoint British subjects. Its staff might be recruited from America or from Germany, but is this desirable?
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In my opinion, however, the greatest objection to the establishment of a permanent Board of Trustees is the fact that it will perpetuate the memory of the whole Boxer episode. Whatever the Board may be called in English, the Chinese will always connect it with the Bazer Rebellion. I submit that it is a gesture of doubtful friendliness to perpetuate a fund, the source of which is money payable by China to His Majesty's Government as compensation on account of British subjects brutally murdered, robbed and outraged by Chinese. When I saw Lord Willingdon in May last, I told him what I felt about this; and I said, and he agreed, that any organ- ization that it might be necessary to create in connection with the Indemnity Fund should be of a purely temporary nature. Possibly the objection, which I have just put forward, was in the mind of the veteran Chinese statesman referred to on page 15 of the Report as having expressed the view that all the money should be spent as soon as it became available. But this statesman is the only person referred to in the Report whose identity has been withheld.
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I have already pleaded the claims of the University of Hong Kong. The Colony has been, and is still, passing through a severe ordeal; but it has
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