and wer
to recommended a Commission of Enquiry
should go out from this country after the war to advise
upon the full development of the higher educational
systems in Hong Kong and Malaya in the light of the post-
They wand advised that war situation. In the meantime the activities of
Hong Kong University should be revived as soon as possible
in a certain order of priority. It seemed to the Chari-
man that this had an important bearing on the present
policy of the Colonial Office which was going back to the
Founder's original vision of a British University in
which
Hong KongAcatering for much more than Colonial needs.by
Should serving (as an instrument of British policy in China and
far in Sorth Chins.
15.
Sir Edward Gent said the 1943 Committee was
bod-
called into being as an informal committee to decite on
lokatd
toka was weeson).
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must term. zeiiviting to get the University oing again
as quickly as possible.
It was not known how long the
Japanese war would ro on and we did not want to be caught
out.
The main purpose
the Committee was, stated
in paragraph1 to examine and advise upon the short-term
b restant
arrangements he made
ta
emde for the resum tion the
the
activities of Hong Kong University and other institutions
of higher education in Hong Kong and Malaya on
reoccupation of those territories. After surveying the
various possibilities, the Committee came back to
essentisti,
short-term view the practical measures
to be
for the Military Administration to take
In the course per No. 2
Paper
of
when they reoccupied Hong Kong -
their investigation they made the suggestion in para. 10
for a single University in either Họng Kong or Malaya,
and. That was
suggellion
matter which the present Committee would
ne doubtletke to look into as a practical suggestion
made by the informal 1943 Committee, but the essential
Wob
purpose of the 1943 Committee were short-term
reconstruction.
only.
10.
The Chairman
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