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FOREIGN OFFICE,

Cultural Relations Department,

17, Carlton House Terrace,

S.W.1.

31st March, 1947.

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Thank you for your letter 5414/47 of 18th March to Mr. Ballantyne who has now left this department.

I enclose a draft of a letter which Sir Orme Sargent proposes to send to the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Treasury in support of your memorandum requesting financial assistance for the re-establishment of Hong Kong University.

I should be grateful to know if this draft has your approval and if so to receive a copy of Sir Thomas Lloyd's letter to the Treasury so that we can despatch our letter immediately afterwards.

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(R. W. Mason).

Miss A. M. Ruston,

The Colonial Office, Downing Street,

S.W.1.