1949
Ext.7.
Copy to J.J. Paskin, Esq.,
Church House.
5th December, 1949.
66
Dear Ride,
The Inter-University Council gladly accepted the invitation of the University of Hong Kong to send visitors. It had at first been suested that the visitors might go in April, 198, but loss in his letter of the 14th February suggested that it might be better to postpone the visit until Christmas. As you know we have been trying to arrange for this visit to take place during the Christmas vacation but a variety of unexpected developments have mad the position quite uncertain right up to recently. One of our intended visitors, Professor Eastham, is ill and it is unlikely that he will be free to go at Christmas. Vice- Chancellors in this country are not available to undertake visits abroad at the moment because they are having to review all their capital programmes because of the financial crisis. sloss has told me that he has heard from you that you had yourself been wondering whether the visit might not be better at Easter instead of Christmas and in a long discussion which I have just had with Sloss, Christopher Cox, and the Colonial office, it was agreed that in the circumstances it will be better for us to put the visit back a little into next term or the Laster vacation. This may involve still further delay in decisions about the applications for C.D. & W. grants and so on, but it was fully understood that apart from delay, a brief postponement of the visit would not in any way prejudice the niversity's case for C.D. & W. help.
Now that we have a little more breathing space, we shall probably be able to make our arrangements for the visit with rather less haste than was the case recently and I shall of course keep you ini ormed of how our own. plans and sugestions are developing about dates and the persons who will be the visitors.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Walter Adams)
Secretary.
URLBA
Professor L.T. Ride, C.B.E., H.A., D.K., B.Ch. Ox.
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