CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949 — Page 84

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based on /policy

of attracting students from

China. Any such objective would be outside

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the scope of C.D. & W. assistance

assistance could therefore be justified only

on ground that it could profitably be used

within (roughly) pre-war limits; since

both Hong Kong Government assistance and

H. M. G.'s grant are already available, any

request for C. D. & W. assistance over and

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above amounts thus available would require

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a great deal of justification,

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4. Your paragraph 5. It remains a

reasonable supposition that opening of

Malayan University would reduce the number

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of students from Malaya and Hong Kong.

5. Your paragraph 6. I cannot accept

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suggestion that H. M. G. 's free grant of

£250,000 is being used "as a pretext" for

refusing a grant from C. D. & W. funds. Nor

could I accept any implication (though I feel sure

this was not intended) that H. M. G. 's generosity

in granting £250,000 towards the University

imposes on H. M. G. an obligation to multiply

that amount by two. The position is as set

out in paragraphs 2 and 3 above.

6. Your paragraph 7. I heartily endorse

your view that it would be rash to utilise

the whole of H. M. G. 's grant on capital development

involving recurrent charges which it might

be difficult to meet.

7.

May I suggest that considered plans

for rehabilitation and development of University

to