CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 89

November 9th 1928

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My dear Ronnie,

Sir Cecil Clementi, the Governor of Hong Kong,

tells me that he had a talk with Sir Victor

Wellesley the other day from which he gathered

that, in view of the experience of the American

trustees, the F.0. or recognise the futility of

trying to give effect to the Willingdon Report.

Wellesley seems to have added that the F.0. is now

seriously considering the proposal that the whole

of the Boxer Indemnity funds, both the two and a h

millions already recovered and the future instalme due, should be given back to "China" as an act of

There may conceivably be something to k

said for waiving the Indemnity in the future, thou

personally I strongly share the view expressed by

Winston the other day that we ought not to give uj

good claims of ours as a mere gesture of goodwill

goodwill.