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and serving in the proces s as a nucleus on

which expansion to the wider role could be

based should changing circumstances permit

it.

We have before us a scheme of

rehabilitation and development drawn up by the

University authorities in consultation with

the Governor, by which progress on a modest

scale would be achieved with the assistance

of grants from the Hong Kong Government and

from C.D. & W. funds, and of the £250,000 free

gift announced last year by H. M.G. and this

spring representatives of the Inter-University

Council will be visiting Hong Kong to get

an up-to-date assessment of the University's

needs and potentialities on the spot, on the

basis of which the Council will be able to

advise our Secretary of State whether Hong

Kong's plan should be supported and should

be backed by the C.D. & W. grants which are

essential to its prosecution in its present

form.

2.

We might have informed you sooner how

things stood; our last correspondence with

the Foreign Office about the University was

with MacDermott, under Foreign Office

reference LC1117/87/452; that was in the early

part of 1948, and I fear we have been remiss.

But I hope what I have written above will

serve to give you a general idea of the position

so far, which we should be glad to amplify in

any direction that particularly interested you;

and will serve also as an introduction on the

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specific