CO129-588-10 Hong Kong University- proposed Commission to discuss future activities following liberation 28-8-1943 - 7-1-1944 — Page 29

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practicable date after the reoccupation of those

territories. The deliberations of this Committee

will be largely directed to matters of detail and

of immediate concern when British civil administration

is restored in Hong Kong and Malaya, but it seems

very desirable that the Committee should be empowered

from the outset to take a broad view of the future

of the institutions of higher education in these

territories and that it should therefore be free to

widen its discussions as may be found necessary during

the progress of its enquiry, and to submit

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2. Colonel Stanley assumes that the Commission

on Colonial Higher Education will wish to be kept

informed of the progress of the deliberations of this

new Committee, and he hopes that it will be willing to

give its valuable help and advice to that body upon

any major problem with which it may be confronted.

Professor Channon, who is a member of the Commission

on Higher Education and visited Malaya in 1938, has

agreed to serve on the proposed new Committee, and

the Commission will thus be enabled to obtain, at

first hand, any information it may wish to have in

The line along which regard to this ad hoc enquiry in our sloping.

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