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policy is to inform the plans made for the resuscitation

of the University and what immediate steps should be taken

to restore the work which has hitherto been undertaken by

the University and which in any case is necessary in as

far as the local needs or Hong Kong are concerned.

Our feeling is that recommendations on this matter

and planning of this kind should be undertaken by a body

independent of the Colonial Office or the Hong Kong

administration.

We have in mind therefore the establishment

of a small and representative body to act as an ad hoc

Advisory Committee. It is proposed that the Chairman of

the Committee should be Mr. C.W.M.Cox, Education Adviser

to the Secretary of State and in addition to Mr. Sloss,

the Vice-Chancellor, who has recently returned from

internment in Hong Kong, and ir. Korse of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Treasurer of the University, it is hoped

to have amongst others the assistance of

Dr. R.E. Priestley, Vice-Chancellor of the University

of Birmingham.

Mr. Walter Adams, Secretary Designate of the Inter-

University Council.

Professor L.. Penson, Professor of Modern History in

the University of London.

Sir George Moss, late Consul-General Hankow.

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I write now to enquire whether the General Medical Council

would agree to nominate a representative on this Committee.

In view of the fact that the Medical School is perhaps the most important Faculty of the University and certainly the

one that is most urgently required at the present time, and on account

the amount of the interest and sympathy which the Council

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have given in the past, we should very much welcome the help

and advice of one of its members.

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