An Oxford Sensation

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 32, 21 January 1926, Page 5

An Oxford Sensation

Communist Propaganda AMONG INDIAN STUDENTS. QUEENSLAND RHODES SCHOLAR INTERDICTED. by Cable—Press Association—Copyright.} (Received 21, 9.5 a.m.) r London, Jan. 20. I A mild sensation was caused at Ox s ford University by an allegation that Communist propaganda was being conJ ducted among Indian students, conI cerning which a question was recently I asked in the House of Commons. s The upshot has been correspondencebetween the Vice-Chancellor, the procs tors, and a Queensland Rhodes 3 scholar, Mr. F. Stephenson, a second r year student, who has also given poliI tical addresses in Yorkshire. He was requested by the proctors to give a r written guarantee within 48 hours to \ cease propaganda among Indians while ' at the University. Otherwise he would be “sent down.” Mr. Stephenson signed the guarantee on Monday.—(A. and N.Z.) Mr. Stephenson, interviewed, said that iiie action of the Vice-Chancellor in compelling him to sign a promise not to endeavour to propagate Coni- ‘ directly or indirectly, “is . quite in accordance with the conservative traditions of the Oxford autho- ’ rities, who are notorious for their resistance to the new and vital ideas of each succeeding generation, but the ’ Vice-Chancellor has unlimited power—his word is law, and I do not wish suddenly to discontinue my studies for : honours in the school of philosophy, r politics and economics.”—(A. and ’ N-Z.)