CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949 — Page 32

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Cox Committer Report should

be published

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that

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deletion.

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of Report

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prepared members of

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1. It was agreed (vide 16 and 17) that the Report of the Hong Kong University Advisory Committee, 1946, should not be published. Mr. Cox (vide his minute of 18/2), who was Chairman of the Committee, and the Foreign Office (vide 20) concurred in this decision. The Treasury have had no comments on it - clearly it suited them (vide para. 2 of my minute of 10/3). Mr. Rees-Williams approved the decision.

2. In concurring in the decision the Foreign Office noted that the only passages in the Report

they