CO129-576-5 Hong Kong University 13-6-1939 - 23-11-1939 — Page 60

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(F 8641/3446/10)

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE

22a Queen Anne's Gate,

Westminster,

London, S.W.1.

31st July, 1939.

My dear Warner,

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The enclosed very interesting letter is

from Mr. D.J. Sloss, C.B.E. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Sloss fully understands that the University Grants Committee's writ only runs in the United Kingdom, but we naturally take a spiritual interest, so to say, in Universities overseas, and in

any case my Ministry of Information contacts caused me

rather especially to listen to what Mr. Sloss has to say.

The point in the letter to which I would especially draw

your attention is his representation that he would wish

to be able to offer scholarships at Hong Kong University to selected students from Interior China, as it passes

through my mind that possibly the British Council might

be able to help in that direction. I understand that

Mr. Sloss (he looked in to see me last Saturday) has

already seen Howe in your office as to the general position

of the University in Hong Kong and its actual and potential

influence there. He has also of course seen the Colonial

Office people, who I understand are very sympathetic to

his plea for increased financial support. The scholarship

point is, however, rather a separate one, and it occurs

to me that you might like to take the matter up with the

British Council.

C.F.A. Warner Esq.,

Foreign Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed)

John Beresford.

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