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Government of Hong Kong completely to alter their ideas
sooner or later they must and endeavour if possible to
interest and utilize the brains of the younger Chinese - by
that I mean full-blooded Chinese of the new school, who are not
Eurasians.
one.
The one idea of all executive officials appears
to be to have a maximum foreign staff and a minimum Chinese
Actually there are in the Hong Kong Government no
Chinese holding executive positions of any sort. To illustrate
the attitude of the Government towards the Chinese I cannot do
better than cite their treatment of students who have obtained
their B.Sc. Engineering degree at the Hong Kong University.
These young men naturally find considerable difficulty in
obtaining employment immediately after they have finished their
course at the University, and in fact are worth little or
nothing to any firm or to any Government department until they
have had some practical experience.
The Secretariat of Chinese Affairs seems to be
confined or anyway confines itself to internal Hong Kong
affairs and therefore knows just as little about modern
political conditions in China as anyone in the port. This
Department also seems to be quite out of sympathy with modern
China, whereas, if it only studied China, it might be of very
great use as the Foreign Affairs Department of the Hong Kong
Government.
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