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Mr.
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Mr. C. Cox
30/7/48. (v. min.)
Mr....
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Mr..
Paskin
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Mr. C. Cox
Sidebotham
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Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
162.56/66
Sarsham Sundung
Your Reference
DRAFT.
QUARTO
TO:
ALL MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG
UNIVERSITY ADVISORY
COMMITTEE, EXCEPT MR. D.J. SLOSS.
FURTHER ACTION.
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You will recall that two years ago we presented
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies our Report
on the University of Hong Kong. There is now a
proposal to publish the Report, omitting certain.
passages, and it is about this that I am writing
to you.
It is so long since we signed the Report
that I am sure you would like me first to say
shortly what has happened since the Report was
presented.
As you probably know, after long negotiations,
the position had finally to be accepted that, in view
of the straitened circumstances in which His Majesty's
Government itself was placed, direct financial
assistance to the University was not at present possible
and our main recommendations for the rehabilitation
of the University on an extended basis had therefore
to be deferred. In January of this year, in the
light of this decision, the Hong Kong Government
put forward proposals for financing the restoration
of the University to its pre-war standard from
local loan funds, and these were agreed to by the
Secretary of State.
It was at this stage that publication of our
Report was first considered, and the view expressed
/ that
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