A report published by Universal Service announcing that the Carnegie Endowment. for International Peace has suspended all work in Germany leaving vacant its professorial chairs in that country, was denied at city headquarters of the Endowment.
The story, published in a metro politan daily and bearing a Paris dateline, said that the School of International Politics in Berlin had become an organ of Nazi propaganda.
Henry F. Haskell, assistant to the Director of the Division on Education, issued a statement expressing “grave doubts as to the accuracy of the report.” He said that he has no knowledge as to how the report originated.
The Universal Service story said in part:
“Dr. Earle B. Babcock, European administrative director of the endowment, said the endowment’s permanent professor at the Hochshule for Politik in Berlin, Dr. Hajo Hilborn, has left the Reich.
“The second chair which the endowment maintains at the school is filled annually by four visiting professors. Dr. Babcock said it has been customary to send outstanding educational leaders to lecture in this professorship, but this year no visiting professor has been sent.”
Dr. Babcock is quoted as saying that “The university once was an outstanding school of international politics, but in recent months it has become an organ of Nazi propaganda.”
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