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Kong ong.

Government House.

January 24th, 1938.

Dear Cowell.

I enclose a copy of a letter which

Mr. Sloss, the Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong

University, has written to Mr. Brander, the

Secretary of the British Empire Universi ty Bureau.

Sloss wanted to redraft it, as he felt it was too

much in the style of a private letter and a bit

rhetorical, to boot: but it seemed to me to

express so well his ideas on the essential point,

that is to say, the non-necessity for any expert

academic commission at the present time, that it

should go forward to you as it stood. The Secretary

of State is personally interested in this problem and

he may be glad to see the enclosure, with which, by

the way, I am in full agreement.

Yours sincerely,

1. At korthet

H.R.COWELL, ESQ., C.M.G.,

COLONIAL OFFICE.