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by the case for pressing on with

the policy which you and Sloss were

advocating. We attach the highest

importance to the development of the

University as an institution to serve the

needs of students from China and so to

nine promote British relations of a general

cultural nature with that country.

The

response from the Foreign Office was most

satis factory;

Lord Halifax expressed

himself as in entire sympathy with my views

on the subject, and he was of the opinion

that the University was a valuable instrument

for propagating British ideals and spreading

British influence in China, and that it should

be given all the support andassistance

possible in increasing its usefulness in

those respects. Personally, I have little doubt

ould

And

that I shat have a similarly favourable response

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from the Treasury, but unfortunately the war

broke out to intercept it, and I fear

that

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