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causes seeking his support, but this response was very disappointing because it would make it all the more
difficulty to raise the matter again.
3. Dr Carey and Dr Villiers were both optimistic about the possibility of raising funding from educational institutions and British businesses in the Philippines Shell, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Standard and Chartered Bank. Mr Adams cautioned that in the Philippines, as elsewhere in South East Asia, promises were not always followed by
firm commitments.
4. Perhaps the most promising possibility for financial backing came from the Leverhulme Trust, who, it was said, might be prepared to offer up to £100,000. It was not made clear what conditions would be attached to this offer.
5. Mr Adams asked how and where the proposed Centre would operate were funding due to become available. Dr Carey said that St Anthony's College were content for the Centre to be based there, at least in its initial stages. The first priority was for a Reader or Professor to give the scheme
if the coherence, followed by a small study library, and
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project were successful an independent physical centre. It was envisaged that the students would be largely or exclusively at a post-graduate level, and that their principal interests would be in some kind of research.
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Questioned by Mr Adams about where the students would come from, Dr Villiers said that they hoped for an even spread across the region, but that he saw Indonesia as a particularly large reservoir of intellectual talent. were tentative plans for Dr Carey to visit Indonesia, seeking support for his project, and perhaps return to Malaysia in July or August 1986.
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