CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949 — Page 88

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Mr.

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Mr. Ben Willen

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Minister of State

· Mr.

Siltothen

4/10.

Secretary of State

Por DreCCL

concurrence

Your Reference..

DRAFT.

JOLIN 1717

GOVERNME

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Your viagem mo. Why,

Univerit..

1.

I regret

(45)

2.

appears noe

что Разде Peale

Aruppent a full rrake University, and it Therefore

seems that

FURTHER ACTION.

delay in replyin..

Purport of my tdegrom No.630

Beems to have been misunderstood. Intention

wax to warn you that a request

for U.D.A V. assistance was not likely

to be successful unless it were basol

on a detailed cane which would show

beyond reasonable doubt that there was

room for a J. J.

grant of the

order proposed, over and above assistance

already given, in meeting the internal

needs of Hong Kong.

3. Your

Paragraph 4.

There is

no question of objection to a C.D. & W.

un

•ground that

grant students from China might

benefit from development thereby made

possible. But population of Colony,

admitted by

Se

though increased, still

Iimited substantial expansion of

University could therfore only be based

on

policy of attracting students

anad

from China.Any such objective would be

outside the scope of C.D. & W.

assistance,