More than 178 exiled German scholars have been assisted to carry on their academic work in British universities, the British Academic Assistance Council has reported. Lord Ernest Rutherford, noted British scientist, is president of the Council. The council report also thanked the British Central Fund for German Jewry for a generous contribution of £2,500 for Jewish and non-Jewish scholars alike.
The Daily Telegraph, London newspaper, speaking of the refugee scholars, declared, “What the refugees from Flanders and Huguenot France did for our textile industry may be paralleled by what the victims of modern fanaticism can do for certain branches of science, particularly chemistry, in Great Britain.”
Lord Rutherford, writing in the London Times, declared that the exiles have already made several notable scientific discoveries in their short period of residence in England.
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