personnel was an assured increase of income in
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the neighbourhood of £10,000 in the immediate
future, and subsequently, if the University were
to be properly developed as an element in British
policy in the Far East, it would be necessary
for an additional endowment to be provided which
would give the University a further increase of
by
annual income the tonear about £30,000.
Apart from the general desirability of
the maintenance and development of Hong Kong
University to play its part in British policy in
China, Mr. Morse himself mentioned one other
consideration, namely the bad effect - now
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especially if we had to face a decision to wind
up the University in Hong Kong and let it relapse
into something short of university status. Such
a failure on our part would, he suggested, be
definitely regarded in the Far East as an
acquiescence onore bent in the eclipse of British
influence in China. Mr. Mayhew and I put forward
certain arguments for the purpose mainly of drawing
out Mr. Morse and Mr. Masson and acquainting
ourselves fully with their views on the situation, and we were all agreed that this was not a solely
or even mainly local affair of Hong Kong's, to be
judged on a basis of local considerations, but was
one in which we must engage the interest both of the Foreign Office and the Treasury if any headway
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