CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941 — Page 55

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>LONDON SXWXIX

19th August 1940.

Dear Mr. Gent,

Many thanks for your note of the 17th, and the

draft which you enclosed of the telegram to Hong Kong. I

enclose an alternative version of the telegram for your con-

sideration. I am anxious to make it quite plain to the

Vice-Chancellor that all that the Rhodes Trustees have so far

approved is a grant of £1,000, to be spent over the next year

or two, as may seem nost suitable, in order to bring a student or

students from Hong Kong to Oxford. It seemed to me that your

opening, which refers only to the prospect that the Trustees might

be prepared to grant £800 a year for four or five years, without

mentioning the way in which this proposal developed out of the

other, might seem a bit too optimistic. As I explained, at our

discussion, the Rhodes Trustees have had no opportunity to consider

either of the two chief proposals which we discussed, since all

which they have had before them has been the Secretary of State's

letter enquiring as to the possibilities of a Rhodes Scholarship to

Oxford for Hong Kong. I have also suggested an insertion, at the

end,of

of some enquiry as to what the Vice-Chancellor thinks would be

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