CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946 — Page 166

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All these factors operated against

the fulfilment of the Lugard plan, but it

need not have failed, as it largely did,

if imagination had been shown in the

financing of our own University.

In the

methingto

University field Britain has some give that can stand comparison with and

hold its own against, anything in the world, that this is so is realised in China as elsewhere (station).

It is not too late to recapture lo t

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ground.

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Several of the factors numerated

above will not operate to such a marked extent in the post-war world. Already there is evidence that the Chinese people feel that

they owe a debt to Britain and that there of the mind

must be aspects/the attitude

nation

(

thed

which produced

the spirit of 1940 which have much in common

prove akin to

with and might well reinforce their

their own.

The first aggressive phase of the national

rejuvenation is giving place to something

deaper and calmer and more mature.

New

etly conceivable

China is sure of herself as she never was

before the war. She has proved herself

in modern crises and her aggressive

neighbour is, chiefly through her own

resistance, no longer a menace. Knowing

what she is and has herself, she can afford

to look to her late allies for much she

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does not possess without risk of loss of face

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