CO129-588-10 Hong Kong University- proposed Commission to discuss future activities following liberation 28-8-1943 - 7-1-1944 — Page 30

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GARSTON 1062.

RIVERHAM,

GRASSENDALE PARK,

LIVERPOOL, 19.

2004 1943.

May

dear

played,

Thank you very much for juning

me the opportunity of bothing

over the draft letter,

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which I now return.

I feel that the reading of the letter in its present form will fall somewhaľ Korrkly the cons of the members of the high-powered Asquith Commission, some of whom I think are already

little conscious of a fishing that the existence of the b that commission limits the

work of this Commi

It neems to me that the letter would be improved if it could the moolified in the following ways:-

sirent

(a) It pught somehow or other to disclove the post that the purposed committe will not comment of in education, ent avill consist of people with there experience of Hong Kong & Malaya. (3) The wanding of para 2 emphasias unnecessarily that the committer might mode zeermaandlatums involving nobutantial charges, a wise I think abour the miners of the Asquith Commission which myjar and into it that chayes of principle on which it should he computed, and sobatome of para 2 in a modified from night he lens conspicuous if it appered at the

ing at appered at the end of paral. (E) I any goat that the litter should put out to and the goodwill of the Exquith commission, which

be

te the to give advice if cutain purblems arise wirlved. I telin

they four

contemplated. The

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may actually misor -t he exxulted if prling becomes that the importance of the Daywith Commission thing hypt in touch all

almay the live stured the emphased- Fruth the Aquith Commission may te are to help

Howay Army Malaya considerably in it awon upet e it is desinble that is stored he exemayed t

هه ماه

I attend a

draft which tries to meet the prints I have raved, though I am met

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Ratingpeed with it. It may not sex with your approval And it saws what I think is a better explosis. I hope theyfure that the charged which you sent me will not go forward in its pret form, for I pm sure it will be prosly received.

I

Im very pussssly, H.J. Ch

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