CO129-576-5 Hong Kong University 13-6-1939 - 23-11-1939 — Page 57

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(F 11849/3446/10).

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The British Council,

3, Hanover Street,

London, W.1.

13th November, 1939.

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Dear Dening,

I enclose a copy of a letter sent by Sir John Pratt to Johnstone on the 13th September (the enclosures to which are no doubt available in your department) in regard to a proposal that scholarships should be granted at Hong Kong University to selected students from China and financed by the British Council. You will find the full details of this question in Colonial Office letter No.53611/39 on your file F 8645/3446/10 of the 8th August to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (paragraph 5) and in the second half of John Beresford's letter of the 31st July on your file of the same number.

While the Council naturally do not feel able to take any action in the matter until the general question of policy raised in the fifth paragraph of the Colonial Office letter is settled, I am authorised to write and inform you that we should, in principle, be prepared to set aside a sum of £1,000 for scholarships for Hong Kong University during the academic year 1940/41 if the question of policy is settled in time.

M. E. Dening, Esq., 0.B. E.,

Far Eastern Department,

Foreign Office,

Whitehall,

S.W.1.

Yours, etc.

(Signed) Boyd Tollinton.