WHERE RACES MIX.
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE. NATIONAL RIVALRIES ABSENT. An international college where 400 students, of 23 different nationalities, lived together in complete amity is by Mr. Angus Mcßean, forof Auckland, who is revisiting the Dominion after four years, spent as principal of the English section of the Rosenberg Institute in Switzerland. "Right up to the moment when I left there six weeks ago," he said, "there was not the least suggestion of national rivalries. All the students, including boys from Nazi Germany and Jewish refugees, worked and played together in a normal way. The best of relations existed and there were no difficulties." German and Italian youths predominated, added Mr. Mcßean. The college .was about CO years old, being one of the oldest institutions of its kind, on an international basis, in -Europe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 220, 18 September 1939, Page 3
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133WHERE RACES MIX. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 220, 18 September 1939, Page 3
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