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Finally there is the question of making public
the decision to make a further £250,000 in addition
to that promised in the Hong Kong Financial Settlement
available to the University for capital works. You
will no doubt appreciate that, quite apart from the
desirability of maintaining interest and pride in
the University in Hong Kong (with a view
incidentally to obtaining funds from private sources
to assist the University), such an announcement would
have a very considerable political significance,
particularly at the present time, as a further
proof of His Majesty's Government's oft-stated
intention of remaining in Hong Kong.
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We are/thinking of suggesting to the Hong Kong
lives of the Government that an announcement on the ang
Inclosure to this letter
te should be made and we should be grateful
for any comments which you may wish to make on
this announcement; it would be made simultaneously
in Hong Kong and London
I will write to
You
later on
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question of making provision for recurrent expenditure to which brief reference is made in the draft announcement.
Yours sincerely,
No comments yet.
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