letter to Gilbert on the 12th of April, namely.
that the re-opening of the University on an
extended basis would undoubtedly have a reassuming
effect on the busines community and inhabitants
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of Hong Kong, since it would be regarded as convinoing though indirect evidence of H. M. G's intention to maintain
their position in the Colony for at least some very
considerable time to come. But even if, for the sake
of argument, we consider for a moment the hypothesis
of a retrocession of Hong Kong, at some time in the
future, we should have thought there would have been
no difficulty in such an event about stipulating an
condition of the retrocession of the territory the
retention of the University of Hong Kong as a British
Institution, on the analogy of the strong and influencial
American Universities in China.
These are our views, and those of my Secretary of
State, on the political aspects of this question. No.
doubt Orme Sargent, to whom I am sending a copy of this
letter, will be writing to you, also on this aspect.
Turning to the second paragraph of your letter,
we quite understand your reluctance to sanction any expenditure which is not of the most urgent and vital
character until the full extent of our financial
commitments in the Far East can be appreciated and they
We realise
On the other hand, we
can be marshalled in some order of priority.
that this is a real difficulty.
do fool that a decision about the future of the University is now urgent, particularly since it is now more than a year ago that Civil Government was resumed. circumstances we hope it would meet you if we were to
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