CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946 — Page 96

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(Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune said here something

about if there was a University for the Far East it

would attract people from ......)

Mr. Cox thought that a blue print should now be obtained and to convince H.M. Treasury that it is worth while spending the money. He thought that this

.was the Committee's task. Mr. Adams thought it was

undesirable to attempt a combined University.

Mr. Burney said a University in the Far East could

not be unified in Malaya and he thought the answer to that was the actual content of the Malayan

University. He said we had to decide our terms

of reference.

He thought the Malayan University

could not do what we would have to refuse in Hong Kong. It really did not affect the present problem.

Whether

it would attract the Chinese away from Hong Kong or not he felt we were necessarily bound to consider one

University.

Mr. Cox thought that if there were a good

University its excellence would bring the Chinese to

it. It would not preclude us from making friends.

There must be at least direction at the start and we

had to convince the Empire Government that a University

in Hong Kong is worth the finance and we wanted to put

up a really good show.

Mr. Morse mentioned that there were two scholarships (Yuriam) He said it was the cost of education in Hong Kong that kept the students away and that there ought to have

been more scholarships in the past. He asked whether

we were going to take the plunge and plan a University

at least equal to the first grade Chinese Universities.

Mr. Sloss said would the Foreign Office state

specifically that they approved the general lines of

some such scheme.

Sir Humphrey Frideaux Brune replied

He said that the outlook was full of uncertainties and