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that, should the Chinese Government show reluctance
in agreeing to this proposed grant, the suggestion
that such a grant should be made will be with-drawn.
It seems to me that the Chinese Government is bound
to try to secure for its own peculiar purposes every penny that it can, and I anticipate protests about the
proposed reductions marring the spontaneous
generosity of the proposed gesture.
funds at least cannot, I presume, be given away without
the previous consent of Parliament embodied in an Act: and I fail to understand why His Majesty's Government should make the agreement of the Chinese Government a condition of making over to the Hong Kong University such a grant from the Indemnity Funds as His Majesty's Government think that the University should receive. Surely, if His Majesty's Government is of opinion that the Hong Kong University should receive a grant, the Chinese Government should be told so and the payment of the grant to the University should be one of the provisions of the projected Bill. The grant would then be assured to the University by an Act of
Parliament.
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12. I am grateful for the recommendation that the Hong Kong University should receive a grant; but I regret that the proposed grant is not larger than £250,000, a sum which is entirely inadequate. still attach the highest importance to the creation of a Chinese Faculty in the University; but I still realize that this project is something which lies practically outside the range of the University's
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