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FOREIGN OFFICE ATTINDE.

The Committco was disappointed that

the representative of the Forcin

Office on the Committee having regard to the immodiate

disturbance in Chinese internal affairs, did not feel free to

re-affirm the approving judgment of Lord Halifax quoted in

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's letter to the Governor of Hong Kong.

The Committee, therefore, continued ite work in an atmosphero

to some degree abstracted from reality.

It-wus_realised that without strong support from the

Forcim Office there was little hope of adequat, support from 24 the Treasury.

Nvgıtkele 5s, The Committee, conrinced that

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the University was a good instrument of a friendly policy, and

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that the nood for it was 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

believes would be of value. It was assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experienne hold approve

which is appended to there noto In making its 'blue print' the Committee has had the aid of

the recorded views and recommendations of Frofessor Percy

Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British

Council in China and Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the

Council's Far East Department in London.

Consideration has

been given also to the suggestions of past and present members

of the UniversityStaff and to recommendations made by the

Hong Kong University Committeo of 1939.

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