It is unthinkable that London University should accept the invitation to the 550th anniversary celebration of Heidelberg University in Germany, it was declared today by Graham Little, Conservative M.P. for the university, in The Times. He said that acceptance would contradict “the unbroken tradition of a century.”
Oxford and Birmingham Universities have announced that they will not send delegations to the observance.
Seventeen British university teachers recently stated in a letter to The Times that they support the view of Dr. N. Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham, that in view of anti-Semitic propaganda at German universities, no British universities should participate in the Heidelberg celebration.
They wrote: “Every one would know that only the intolerance of all real freedom of thought on some of the most vital interests of life, the relentless persecution of those bold enough to express opinions contrary to Nazi doctrine and the savage treatment of ‘non-Aryans’ had prompted the decision.”
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