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DRAFT. LETTER

RT. HON. ERNEST BEVIN, M. P.,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

FURTHER ACTION.

Benic. quinly

to this preston

You have already expressed to me

your sympathy with or proposals for the

re-establishment of Hong Kong University

about which Mayhew wrote to me in a letter numbered L.C.4999/4999/452 of the

20th December.

*S.

'''ཨུཏཱདསུ ནུ བྷཱཝརཾ, ཙཱཝ ཨཝནཱ རཱ ད

I have now been able to

study this letter in conjunction with the look at the stor

Report of the Scarborough Commission.

The Scarborough Report, like the

Report of the Advisory Committee of

Hong Kong University enclosed with my

letter of the 24th October, recognizes the

importance of the adequate representation

in China of British culture and British

scholarship as well as the need for

facilities for the study of Chinese culture.

In view of the size of China, the distance

between Peking and Hong Kong, and the

differences in character between the

northern and the southern provinces, it

would seem that there is ample room for two

institutions. Whether or not this is so,

I would ask for a reconsideration of the

condition which Mayhew suggested should be

attached to a joint approach to the

Treasury on the Hong Kong project, namely