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You will remember that I reported to you

yesterday that Dr. opens had informed me by tele-

phone that he had opened a letter addressed to Mr.

Pickthorn by Dr. loss, Vice Chancelor of Hong

Kong University, in which a suggestion was made

that Mr. Pickthorn, or possible the whole Raffles

College Commission, should visit Hong Kong before

returning to England. Mr. Pickthorn is now on the

sea between Marseilles and Port Said. Dr. Spens

reported that he was sending me the letter (I thought

he was going to send a copy, but he has sent the

original, now attached in a cover to the file).

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You suggested, and I agreed, that further considers-

tion should await receipt of the text of the letter

The latest expression of the views of the

Governor of Hong Kong on the Hong Kong University

question is in his despatch on the Hong Kong file,

where he stated that at present any how no outside

expert Commission was required. Whether it would

be required later was left an open question.

In

my minute on the file I advised concurrence with

this view.

In his letter to Mr. Pickthorn, evidentiy

written after discussion with the Governor, Dr. Sloss expresses his own view "in which the Governor very largely agrees that, temporary measures having been adopted locally to meet the situation created by the local Commission's report, the time has now come for considering the future policy of the University on broad lines, and with special

reference to the needs of South Chins and "relat.