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SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

FURTHER ACTION.

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Thank you for your personal letter of

the 23rd September about the University,

enclosing a copy of Sloss's letter of the 22nd

September to MacDougall.

You will by now have received our telegram

No. 1049. I am afraid, from what Sloss says,

this is bound to cause serious disappointment.

But it seems quite clear from Sloss's letter that

the reason for the difficulty about making

Colonial Development and Welfare moneys

available for Hong Kong University has not

been appreciated. Our recent telegram en-

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deavours to explain the reason again. To talk

about being "the victims of adverse discrimina-

tion" is, of course, quite beside the point.

is true, as stated in our telegram, that the

Colonial Development and Welfare higher

education allocation is already very fully

committed, but the first difficulty which has to be overcome is not that, but the difficulty

of making out a case within the ambit of the

Colonial Development and Welfare Vote.

We can appreciate the feeling in Hong Kong,

referred to in paragraph 8 of your savingram

No. 444, that a Colony which has been much to

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