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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

1. Enti 2. M Quantill

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Telephone 01-580 5876

27 Russell Square London WCIB 5DS

10) $15

Mr. A. Clarke,

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Hong Kong Department,

King Charles Street,

London, SW1A 2AH.

Dear Mr. Clarke,

No

HKG.025/4

827 n888

See(21

26th April 1979

Following our telephone conversation yesterday I am

enclosing a few terse comments alongside the names of those academics or other persons known to me whom I think you would find to be good value for your seminar at I.D.S., Sussex, in September. (I do not seem to have a note of the exact dates you propose.)

Dennis AUSTIN,

(Manchester)

H.E. Dr. C.H. GRANT

Yash GHAI,

(?Warwick)

C.W. NEWBURY,

(Oxford)

Professor James READ,

(S.O.A.S.)

Dr. K.E. ROBINSON

(I.C.S., London)

A.E. THORNDIKE,

(North Staffs. Polytechnic)

Has good general Commonwealth knowledge, and has written books about Ghana and about Malta.

Currently Guyana's High Commissioner to the U.K. but formerly a Professor of Political Science in Canada, and the author of a standard book on "Belize".

Good on problems of minorities.

A demographer/economist with wide practical and theoretical knowledge.

Good on constitutional law but his knowledge is mostly of Africa and may be slight on mini-States.

Ex Colonial Office, former Director of I.C.S., former Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University, an expert on the French Colonial Empire as well as a writer on British decolonization.

Knowledgeable about the Commonwealth Caribbean and Brunei.

Among probably available British based academics these would

be my first choices.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Lyon

Peter Lyon.

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