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work in China and of the proposals in the Scarbrough Report.
Subject to the above, we shall be glad to work out the joint approach to the Treasury, as you suggest.
I enclose a copy of a telegram which we have received from our Ambassador in Nanking in response to our request for his views on your project.
There is one further point. Your Department has already agreed in another case relating to Hong Kong that consideration should be deferred until a decision is reached on the general question of the future of Hong Kong, which is expected to come up for Ministerial decision in the course of the next few weeks. I expect therefore that you will want to postpone any public announcement about Hong Kong University until that decision is reached. But in any case it will, I presume, be some time before the time is ripe for any such announcement.
Yous,
Chris Master
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