hovember 18th, 1949.
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The Old Slibe.
Eggeaford Devon.
The Rt. Hon. Mr. A. breech Jones, M.P.
etc.,
etc.,
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Hm. Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Dear Sis.
Having had the honour of serving Hong Kong University Committee, I feel emboldened to
serving on your
last
to
your
attention some ideas which
bring respectfully have occurred to me in connection with Hong Kong, it's
University
and the defence of the English language in the
Far East . This is a problem on which
your
own thoughts
and those of officials in Am. Colonial Office must often have been anxiously concentrated and if the line of approach I now venture to submit is already in
minds
I hope
you
your
will
or has already been acted on forgive the intrusion of suggestions engendered in the. seclusion of rehiement in rural Devonshire.
In Committee I insisted on the enormous value to us
of possessing a Unversity situated in
Unversity situated in territory contiguous to China in that it had a unique advantage over the Universities of that Country
as a disseminator of high British
standards of teaching and of thought and way's under British
jurisdiction and protection. It
and protection. It was moreover a Palladium of the English Language
and a criterion of standards for Chinese students of the purity of our - speech, through which the practical benefits and range
of our mercantile and cultural contacts through it's debased forms, including that lingua franca of the China port's pidgin English, should be extended and improved throughout the Far East. It might indeed in adverse circumstances even become the only Inveristy in touch with Ching where undiluted Englishs thought language could be maintained and taught during
and
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