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of the reasons they refer to the growth of
nationalist sentiment and political self-assurance
in China since the revolution. From the talks
that I have had with well educated and well informed
Chinese at the Honolulu conference in 1936 and at
other times since then, I cannot help feeling that
this political and cultural nationalism is likely
to be an increasing obstacle to the use of Hong
Kong University by students from China. No doubt
the Foreign Office will be able to estimate the
likelihood of the proposals contained in Chapter
4 for establishing co-operative relations with
Chinese Universities overcoming these difficulties.
The views of the Universities of China Committee
might also be worth getting.
It seems to me that anyone who wanted to
oppose the idea of home contributions for Hong
Kong University might suggest as an alternative the
idea that was vaguely referred to by Professor
Channon in his recent talk with us the develop-
ment of a University of the Far East comprising
Hong Kong and the University College which is
contemplated in British Malaya. There is much
that could be said against such a scheme, parti-
cularly in view of geographical distance and there
will, I understand, be no reference to it in the
Report of the Malaya Higher Education Commission.
But it does seem to me questionable whether a case
can be made out for home contributions with the
Consti special purpose of developing in Hong Kong lines
of University study and research, if similar lines
of study and research are to be developed in Malaya,
on the recommendation of the Malayan Higher Edu-
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