CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947 — Page 180

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Sir Bernard Gilbert,

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Dear Gilbert,

12th April, 1947.

We have been considering the future of the

Hong Kong University, and I want to ask for the

Treasury's very sympathetic consideration of the

following proposals for assistance from the United

Kingdom. They are founded on the importance of

the University to wider British interests as well

s to the Colony itself, and are supported by the

Foreign Office as well as the Colonial Office.

The main

The detailed facts are given in the enclosed

copies of the report of a Committee which was set

up in 1945 to advise on the future of the University

and of a memorandum subsequently prepared by us

and agreed with the Foreign Office.

recommendation of the Committee was that the

University should be re-established as soon as

possible on a firm financial basis with staff and

facilities adequate to make it fully capable of

reaching British academic standards and becoming

effective centre for Sino-British contact in

the sphere of learning, and the memorandum goes

into greater detail about the means of financing

that undertaking.

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Our whole joint approach to this subject. with

the Foreign Office is on the basis that the maintenance of a British University in Hong Kong is

valuable

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