CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941 — Page 71

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grateful for your advice and assistance. If it

is possible to pursue it, its moral effect and its

practical significance would, I think, be a

tremendous encouragement both to the cause of Anglo-

Chinese cultural relations and to the University.

This possibility is that the Rhodes Trust

could be asked to consider the establishment of a

Rhodes Scholarship, annually or in alternate years and

tenable at Oxford, for a graduate or undergraduate

of Hong Kong University of Chinese nationality or a

Chinese British subject If such a mark of

recognition from the Rhodes Trust could be given,

it would, I am convinced, have a very important

effect at this time particularly, which is a crucial one in the Far East Bahch interests.

I am confident that the Foreign Office

would lend strong support to the application, but as

I am in some doubt whether such a project could

properly be held to fall within the range of the

Trust's activities, I should much appreciate your

view before taking further steps in the matter.