The Emergency Committee for the Aid of Displaced German Scholars, composed of leading American scholars, issued a statement yesterday protesting against the expulsion of eminent German scholars from German universities and at the same time announcing a campaign for funds to provide positions for ousted German scholars in American universities. “Race, nationality and political partisanship have been set above the ideal of universal learning in Germany,” the statement said.
The group has informed certain universities of its willingness to meet the salaries of German professors and research workers to the “extent and number permitted by the resources at our disposal.” The statement points out, however, that in view of the number of invitations that the university authorities would like to extend to the displaced German scholars, the amount is very inadequate.
The executive committee of the group is composed of Livingston Farrand, chairman; Fred M. Stein, treasurer; Stephen Duggan, secretary; Alfred E. Cohen, L. C. Dunn, Bernard Flexner, and Nelson P. Mead. Among the members of the general committee are Ray Layman Wilbur, Robert A. Milliken, Henry Noble MacCracken, Harold Willis Dodds and William A. Nielson.
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