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up another Committee of the University Court to consider

that cord be dow vien the linlue of Sho

made available

to widen and cared nas tervenday's activister, not only for the benefit of Hong Kong, but in the interests of

friendly relations with China.

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Report was accepted by the Governor and sent with his strong

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support to the Secretary of State. realised that even the very modest proposals for development that it ventured to make would cost far more than was a fuår and

charge on Colonial resourets that if the political function of the University was regarded as of importance, it was essential that His M.jesty's Government should help both by

way of an inbbial gremo 20. defelopment and of annual grants

for maintenance.

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F.Û: azt APPROVAL.

The Vice-Chancellor was deputed to

visit London in the University vacation

of 1939. The Colonial Office was disposed to support the schemes cr development and aided very materially in gaining the good will or the Foreign Office.

The outbreak of war put an end to converanting, bub the

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Secretal, af for the Colonies in a letter to the Covemor of Hong Kong dated Noveho oth, 1933, gave his approval the scheme of development, suggested that a beginning

should be made towards its achieving, and quoteú

the

Secretary of State for Forelyn Affairs, Lord Halifax, as sharing his view and being of the opinion that "the

University was a valuable instrument for propagating British ideals

Pests and spreading British influence in China, and that it

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