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POLLETEN

FOLLIEN CFFICE

AZTITUDZ.

The Committee was disappointed that

the representative of the foreign

Office on the Comittee having regard to the immediate

disturbance in Chinese Internal affairs, did not feel free to

re-affirm the appving judgment of Lord Halifax quoted in Mr. Malcolm McDonald's letter to the Governor of Hong Kong.

The Como, therefore, -continged its work in an atmosphere

(Tho

to e degree abstracted m reality.].

It was realised that without strong 3upport

and

Foreign Office there was little hope of adequate support ÍIDiu

Therefore the fully The Committo urinced that the University - a good instrument of a friendly policy, Shat the nood for it not materially decreased by the

effective work that is being done in China by the British

Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it

believed would be of value. It was assunod that its beginnings might be modost but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience should approve. In making its 'blue print the Committee has had the aid of

the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy

Roxby and Dr, Joseph Needham, representatives of the British

Council in China and 1 Mr.

Fitzgerald, the head of the

Consideration has

Council's Far East Department in London.

been given also to the suggestions of past and presunt members

of the UniversityStaff and to recommendations made by tho

Hong Kong University Committee of 1939.

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