CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947 — Page 205

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Dear Miss Ruston,

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

S.W.1.

8th March, 1947.

Thank you for your letter of the 27th February enclosing two copies of your draft approach to the Treasury for a grant for Hong Kong Universitự

We find your draft entirely suitable and would propose sending it under cover of a letter from the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for oreign Affairs to the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury.

ith reference to cur telephone conversation, I agree that the Treasury should have all the information given in your draft, so that it would be preferable not to shorten it.

I would propose two amendments.

Firstly,

your paragraph 21 quotes a statement by Professor koxby, who died last month, so I would suggest omitting the word "has" in the third line. Secondly, in your paragraph 22, I suggest deleting the words "authoritative public declaration" and substituting "clarification", deleting the whole of the second sentence and the following word "But", and beginning a new sentence with the word "Acts"

Yours sincerely, Al Ballantyn

(A.H. Ballantyne}

Miss A.M. Ruston,

Colonial Office.