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on the further assumption that the Chinese will welcome the rovivl of the University and will co-opcrato in tho cfforts necessary if tho University is to play its part

Even in the post-war reconstruction of the Republic. if, aftor & relatively short time, Hong Kong reverted to Ching the Comittco believes that a University of Hong Kong revived on the generous lines proposed by the Founder would be justified as a continuing source of British influcnce in China.

24. The Committee, convinced that the University is a good instrument of a friendly policy, and the need for it is not materially decreased by the work that is being done in Ching by the British Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it believes would be of value. It is assumed that its beginnings might bo modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience should approve. In making its 'bluc print' which is appended to this note (Appendix I) the Committee has had the aid of the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy Roxby and Dr. Joseph Nocdhan, representatives of the British Council in China and of Mr. Fitzgerald, the hod of the Council's Far East Department in London. Consideration has been given also to the suggestions of past and present members of the University staff and to recommendations made by the Hong Kong University Committec of 1939.

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25. There are a number of matters of major importance on which the Committee, though it has considered them, is roquiring not yet able to make final recommendauions. further important of them deal with finance and are covered by considera- Appendix II and Appendix III.

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