EMPIRE SNUBBED?
Overseas Students Invited To
Study In Britain.
FOREIGNERS GIVEN PRIORITY.
Independent Cable Service.
(Keceivrd 10.30 a.m.) LONDON'
, August 2
'I lie "Daily Express" features iin n niiounccment of the British Council for Kelrttions with other countries, which lms invited 1 ~>o more foreign students "to absorb British culture at a cost to the taxpayer of £$750" as a snub to the Kinpire.
It says the number of students invited arc: Greece 2~>, Bulgaria 1(>, Yugoslavia and France each 12, numerous other European countries, Australia, Canada and New Zealand one each.
The students will be granted £2."»0 bursaries for the universities. Tlicy will lie selected throughout the world by Embassy officials. Consuls and regional officers of the council.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 181, 3 August 1939, Page 11
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