CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950 — Page 34

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I must confess that I feel extremely doubtful about the wisdom of bringing the proposals in the memorandum in No. 14 either to Mr. Walter Adams' notice or, at this stage, to the notice of the Foreign Office. The position, as I see it, in China is this. The name of the Americans 'stinks' there. The name of Great Britain, at any rate, does not do so to the same extent, But the more institutions, etc., in Hong Kong become identified with American interests the more likely we are to be tarred with the same brush in China as the Americans are.

My own feeling is that the best course would be to send the enclosure to No. 14 out to the Governor marked 'Confidential' (in doing so I would say that there would be no objection, of course, to his discussing it with the Vice-Chancellor of the University in strict confidence if he thought it desirable to do so), and invite his observations on it in the first instance before we do anything else. I have spoken to Sir Christopher Cox about this, and he agrees, further consideration, with my view.

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