RED PROPAGANDA

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9

RED PROPAGANDA

AMONG INDIAN STUDENTS J AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

GUARANTEE TO CEASE SUCH ACTIVITIES

REQUIRED FROM A RHODES SCHOLAR . •>

The allegation that Communist propaganda is being conducted among Indian students ~at Oxford University has • * created a sensation, and F. R. Stephenson, a Queensland Rhodes scholar, has been called upon to give a written guarantee that he will cease propaganda among the Indians while •t the university, Br Telegraph.—Press Association. Copybight. London, January 20. A' mild sensation has been caused fit Oxford University over the allegation that Communist propaganda is being conducted among Indian students. The upshot has been correspondence between the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, and the Queensland Rhodes scholar. F. R. Stephenson, a second-year student, Mr. Stephenson, who, has also given public political addresses in Yorkshire, was requested by the Proctors to give a written guarantee that within 48 hours he would cease propaganda among the Indians while at the university. Otherwise he would be sent down. Mr. Stephenson signed the guarantee on Monday. In an interview, he said: "The action of the Vice-Chancellor in compelling me to sign a promise not to endeavour to propagate the Communist view directly or indirectly is in accordance with the conservative traditions of tlie Oxford authorities, who are notorious for their resistance to new and vital ideas in each succeeding generation, but the ViceChancellor has unlimited power. His word is law. I have no wish suddenly to discontinue mv studies in the Honours School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOCIALIST LOCAL AUTHORITIES EVILS OF EXTRAVAGANT OUTDOOR RELIEF , . London, January 20.' The "Daily Mail” says that when the Coalition in 1918 gave votes to persons receiving poor law relief, it struck a serious blow at sound local administration. Mr. Baldwin’s Government has gradually realised that such persons should be disfranchised, and is ■preparing a Bill for this purpose. The Bill will also prohibit the employees of guardians and councillors becoming candidates for any local authority. It will also empower the Minister of Health to supersede boards of guardians in certain cases. This is aimed against “Poplarism,” and shows that the Government recognises that the Socialist local authorities are endeavouring to introduce the worst features of Socialism, by granting extravagant outdoor relief, seeking to interfere with the economic rates of wages by making it more profitable for a man to draw relief nnd remain idle than work.—Sydney "Sun” Cable.