CO129-576-5 Hong Kong University 13-6-1939 - 23-11-1939 — Page 97

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Mr. Gent.

You and Sir Henry Moore may like to see

this note of my talk yesterday with Dr. Sloss

before your talk with him on Friday at 12 o'clock.

2 Dr. Sloss hopes that it may be possible

to arrange a meeting with Foreign Office represen- tatives before the end of July, as he hopes to take his family abroad in August. But he will

be able, if necessary, to get back to England if

required for a sub-committee at any time in

August.

3

He suggests that the following might be

the brought into discussion, either at the meeting

A

which is planned for the near future or at some

subsequent stage.

(a)

(b)

Mr. Masson, who is now

apparently permanently at home.

Sir Will Spene, who as you

know as Chairman of the Universities Bureau has

taken

a very great interest in Hong Kong University

affairs. He is now a member of our Advisory Committee, and educationally he carries considera-

ble weight in Government circles at present.

(c)

British Council.

Some representative of the

The Ambassador in China, with

whom Dr. Sloss has had a talk, has written to the

British Council on the subject.

4

He suggested also that Sir William Peel,

who is the Hong Kong representative on the Uni-

versities Bureau might perhaps be of use.

He

mentioned also the name of Dr. Roxby, Professor of Geography in Liverpool, who has visited China

and Hong Kong, and was much interested in Uni-

versity matters there, but I do not think that

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