SCHOLARS EXPELLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 123, 6 March 1936, Page 5

SCHOLARS EXPELLED.

action at HEIDLEBERC. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, March 4. References to" ill-treatment of distinguished scholars by Nazis was made by Sir Farquhar Buzzard (Regius Prolessor of Medicine at Oxford), addressing the Oxford Convocation. Referring to the rejection of the invitation of "the imitation of Heidelberg University to the anniversary celebrations, he declared that the endeavour to make the anniversary an occasion for universal rejoicing has been psychologically ill-timed. All were anxious to strengthen the hands of those Germans who deplored, however silently, the prevailing political inquisition. The Berlin correspondent of the “Morning Post” ' says that, himself a party to the dismissal of 44 professors and lecturers for political reasons, the Nazi rector of Heidelberg University sent a letter to British universities withdrawing the imitation on the ground that a number of Englishmen confused politics with academic celebrations.